BioMicroCenter:Education
The BioMicro Center offers formal training programs for commercial software as well as office hours during which Center staff help with data analysis. The Center also offers a BioMicroCenter:microarray club every two weeks with expert speakers from various institutes and industries. In addition to the microarray club, the Center sponsors an annual conference with a focus on computational and systems biology.
The BioMicro Center offers a link to current BioMicroCenter:microarray publications though the BioMicroCenter:pubmed search engine.
The BioMicro Center provides information to users regarding current normalization strategies used in the field. References that our users have found useful are listed below.
Two color array normalization[edit]
(Sandrine Dudoit, Yee Hwa Yang, Matthew J. Callow, and Terence P. Speed) (download)
Affymetrix (DChip)[edit]
(Cheng Li and Wing Hung Wong) PNAS, 2001 (download)
(Cheng Li and Wing Hung Wong) Genome Biology, 2001 (download)
Basic Research Applications of DChip[edit]
BioMicroCenter:“Stemness”: Transcriptional Pro.ling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells (Miguel Ramalho-Santos, Soonsang Yoon, Yumi Matsuzaki, Richard C. Mulligan, Douglas A. Melton) Science, 2002 (download)
Affymetrix (RMA)[edit]
(Rafael A. Irizarry, Bridget Hobbs, Francois Collin, Yasmin D. Beazer-Barclay, Kristen J. Antonellis, Uwe Scherf, Terence P. Speed) (download)
BioMicroCenter:Summaries of Affymetrix GeneChip probe level data
(Rafael A. Irizarry, Benjamin M. Bolstad, Francois Collin, Leslie M. Cope, Bridget Hobbs and Terence P. Speed) Nucleic Acids Research, 2003 (download)
(B. M. Bolstad, R. A. Irizarry, M. Astrand and T. P. Speed) Bioinformatics, 2003 (download)
Gene Ontology[edit]
BioMicroCenter:GOstat: Find statistically overrepresented Gene Ontologies within a group of genes
(Beissbarth T, Speed TP) Bioinformatics, 2004 (File:GOstat)