SIMAGE: simulation of DNA-microarray gene expression data

C. Albers,R. Jansen,J. Kok,O. Kuipers,S. Hijum

Published 2006 in BMC Bioinformatics

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BackgroundSimulation of DNA-microarray data serves at least three purposes: (i) optimizing the design of an intended DNA microarray experiment, (ii) comparing existing pre-processing and processing methods for best analysis of a given DNA microarray experiment, (iii) educating students, lab-workers and other researchers by making them aware of the many factors influencing DNA microarray experiments.ResultsOur model has multiple layers of factors influencing the experiment. The relative influence of such factors can differ significantly between labs, experiments within labs, etc. Therefore, we have added a module to roughly estimate their parameters from a given data set. This guarantees that our simulated data mimics real data as closely as possible.ConclusionWe introduce a model for the simulation of dual-dye cDNA-microarray data closely resembling real data and coin the model and its software implementation "SIMAGE" which stands for si mulation of m icroa rray g ene e xpression data. The software is freely accessible at: http://bioinformatics.biol.rug.nl/websoftware/simage.

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