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The information in this file is the more or less the original BASE1 |
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plug-in documentation. For BASE2 related material please see |
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../README. |
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Center |
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Copyright (C) 2005 Johan Enell |
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This file is part of Center plugin for BASE. Center is a program |
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designed as a BASE (http://base.thep.lu.se) plugin. Center is |
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developed at Department of Oncology, Lund University. |
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For questions or bug reports please contact: |
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johan.enell@med.lu.se |
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Johan Enell, Dept Oncology, Lund University, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden |
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This document contains information about the BASE plugin Center |
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Document index: |
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1. Requirements |
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2. Installation |
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3. Download Center |
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4. Description |
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1. Requirements |
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We have tested and used Center on a BASE installation with the following |
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configuration: |
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BASE 1.2.16 |
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java v1.5.0 |
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For compiling the source code java 1.5 is required. |
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2. Installation |
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Place the files 'Center.jar' and 'run' in your base plugin folder and make sure |
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that run has execute permission. Then import plugin_Transformation_Center.base |
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into base and change the name of the executable to the path of the run script. |
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Don't forget to activate the plugin. You might take a look at line 4 in the run |
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script so the path for java is correct. |
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Installing java |
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Java is available on http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.html follow the |
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installation instruction http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/install.html. |
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3. Download Center |
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A demo of Center is available on BASE demo site http://base.thep.lu.se/demo and the |
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latest version can be downloaded from http://base.thep.lu.se/plugins. |
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4. Center description |
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To center your data means that you adjust your values to reflect their |
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variation from some property of the data such as the mean or median. The center |
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plugin allows the user to center the expression levels either per gene or per |
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array. Consider a common experimental design where you are looking at a large |
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number of samples all compared to a common reference. For each gene, you have a |
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series of ration values that are relative to the expression level of that gene |
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in the reference sample. Since the reference sample really has nothing to do |
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with your experiment, you want your analysis to be independent of the amount of |
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a gene present in the reference sample. This is achieved by center your data on |
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genes. Centering makes less sense in experiments where the reference sample is |
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part of the experiment. Centering the data for arrays can also be used to |
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remove certain types of biases and can be seen as a crude normalization. The |
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results of many two-color fluorescent hybridization experiments are not |
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corrected for systematic biases in ratios that are the result of differences in |
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RNA amounts, labeling efficiency and image acquisition parameters. Such biases |
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have the effect of multiplying ratios for all genes by a fixed scalar. Mean or |
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median centering the data in log-space has the effect of correcting this bias, |
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although it should be noted that an assumption is being made in correcting this |
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bias, which is that the average gene in a given experiment is expected to have |
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a ratio of 1.0 (or log-ratio of 0). |
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more robust against outliers. |
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Parameters: |
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Center on genes/arrays - If the centering should be done on genes, arrays or |
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both. If both i chosen then the centering will first be done on genes then on |
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arrays, this is called a cycle. |
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Number of centering cycles - How many cycles should be done. This value is only |
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relevant if the centering should be done on both genes and arrays. |
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Centering using median or mean - If median or mean should be used for the |
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centering. |
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