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Ina Hoeschele
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Last seen 10.2 years ago
Hi,
I am new to the analysis of Illumina beadlevel expression data. I
have data from a collaborator and have started to work with the data
on
the first Beadchip (with 12 arrays or strips). These are single
channel
data. I am using the beadarray package. I read the data in as
follows:
BLData <-
readIllumina(textType=".txt",useImages=TRUE,singleChannel=TRUE,imageMa
nipulation="sharpen",
backgroundSize=17,storeXY=TRUE,metrics=FALSE,backgroundMethod="none",o
ffset=0,normalizeMethod="none")
Note: above I'm doing NO background correction and note that I use
backgroundSize=17.
Then I looked at the data:
an <- arrayNames(BLData)
BLData at beadData[[an[1]]]$G[1:10]
[1] 0.0000000 2.5249867 -0.0359710 0.0000000 0.0000000 -6.8111267
[7] 0.0000000 77.2345222 -0.8237067 -0.2324444
BLData at beadData[[an[1]]]$Gb[1:10]
[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
so I get quite a few G intensities that are zero and ALL of my
background intensities are zero - why is that ?????
Then I created BLData with backgroundSize=4 and backgroundSize=40 (not
knowing what value I should be using ?????). For backgroundSize=4, I
find that
BLData at beadData[[an[1]]]$Gb[1:100]
[1] -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
0 0 0
[26] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
0
0 0 0
[51] 0 0 24 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
0 0 0
[76] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
0 0 0
so now I still have many zero Gb values, but also some nonzero ones
and
even negative (-1)???
But when I use backgroundSize=40, then R crashes (repeatedly).
And when I create BLData with backgroundMethod="minimum" and
backgroundSize=17, then I find the following G intensities:
BLData at beadData[[an[1]]]$G[1:10]
[1] 2.425286e-12 2.524987e+00 2.425286e-12 2.425286e-12 2.425286e-12
2.425286e-12 2.425286e-12 7.723452e+01 2.425286e-12
[10] 2.425286e-12
These G and Gb values all look suspect to me - can someone please
help?
Many thanks, Ina