A modified LOESS normalization applied to microRNA arrays: a comparative evaluation Export

@article{citeulike:5289797, abstract = {Motivation: Microarray normalization is a fundamental step in removing systematic bias and noise variability caused by technical and experimental artefacts. Several approaches, suitable for large-scale genome arrays, have been proposed and shown to be effective in the reduction of systematic errors. Most of these methodologies are based on specific assumptions that are reasonable for whole-genome arrays, but possibly unsuitable for small microRNA (miRNA) platforms. In this work, we propose a novel normalization (loessM), and we investigate, through simulated and real datasets, the influence that normalizations for two-colour miRNA arrays have on the identification of differentially expressed genes. Results: We show that normalizations usually applied to large-scale arrays, in several cases, modify the actual structure of miRNA data, leading to large portions of false positives and false negatives. Nevertheless, loessM is able to outperform other techniques in most experimental scenarios. Moreover, when usual assumptions on differential expression distribution are missed, channel effect has a strikingly negative influence on small arrays, bias that cannot be removed by normalizations but rather by an appropriate experimental design. We find that the combination of loessM with eCADS, an experimental design based on biological replicates dye-swap recently proposed for channel-effect reduction, gives better results in most of the experimental conditions in terms of specificity/sensitivity both on simulated and real data. Availability: LoessM R function is freely available at http://gefu.cribi.unipd.it/papers/miRNA-simulation/ Contact: chiara.romualdi@unipd.it Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443}, author = {Risso, Davide and Massa, Maria S. and Chiogna, Monica and Romualdi, Chiara}, citeulike-article-id = {5289797}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/20/2685.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/20/2685.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19628505}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19628505}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443}, issn = {1460-2059}, journal = {Bioinformatics}, keywords = {comparative, evaluation, loess, microrna, mirna, modified, normalisation}, month = {October}, number = {20}, pages = {2685--2691}, posted-at = {2009-10-12 11:21:03}, priority = {2}, title = {A modified LOESS normalization applied to microRNA arrays: a comparative evaluation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443}, volume = {25}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5289797 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5289797 N2 - Motivation: Microarray normalization is a fundamental step in removing systematic bias and noise variability caused by technical and experimental artefacts. Several approaches, suitable for large-scale genome arrays, have been proposed and shown to be effective in the reduction of systematic errors. Most of these methodologies are based on specific assumptions that are reasonable for whole-genome arrays, but possibly unsuitable for small microRNA (miRNA) platforms. In this work, we propose a novel normalization (loessM), and we investigate, through simulated and real datasets, the influence that normalizations for two-colour miRNA arrays have on the identification of differentially expressed genes. Results: We show that normalizations usually applied to large-scale arrays, in several cases, modify the actual structure of miRNA data, leading to large portions of false positives and false negatives. Nevertheless, loessM is able to outperform other techniques in most experimental scenarios. Moreover, when usual assumptions on differential expression distribution are missed, channel effect has a strikingly negative influence on small arrays, bias that cannot be removed by normalizations but rather by an appropriate experimental design. We find that the combination of loessM with eCADS, an experimental design based on biological replicates dye-swap recently proposed for channel-effect reduction, gives better results in most of the experimental conditions in terms of specificity/sensitivity both on simulated and real data. Availability: LoessM R function is freely available at http://gefu.cribi.unipd.it/papers/miRNA-simulation/ Contact: chiara.romualdi@unipd.it Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443 IS - 20 JF - Bioinformatics SN - 1460-2059 EP - 2691 TI - A modified LOESS normalization applied to microRNA arrays: a comparative evaluation VL - 25 SP - 2685 KW - comparative KW - evaluation KW - loess KW - microrna KW - mirna KW - modified KW - normalisation AU - Risso, Davide AU - Massa, Maria AU - Chiogna, Monica AU - Romualdi, Chiara PY - 2009/10/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp443 ER -