Contents Notes |
Quality of biological samples -- Microarray production: quality of DNA and printing -- Quality of microarray hybridization -- Scanners and data acquisition -- Image analysis -- Quality control in data analysis. This book covers the breadth of issues encompassed by quality control in microarray studies, including quality of biological samples, quality of DNA, hybridization protocols, scanning, data acquisition, image analysis, and data analysis. Its unique focus on quality control addresses a serious knowledge gap amongst the interdisciplinary group of workers--biologists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, physicians, and computational scientists--involved in microarray studies. This book provides the only systematic treatment of quality control beginning with experimental design through to interpreting results. |