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Figure 5

From: Redefinition of Affymetrix probe sets by sequence overlap with cDNA microarray probes reduces cross-platform inconsistencies in cancer-associated gene expression measurements

Figure 5

Improved hierarchical clustering of combined NCI-60 cell-lines profiled by Affymetrix gene-chip and cDNA microarray by sequence-overlapping probe measurements. The gene expression profiles obtained for the sixty cell lines by the Affymetrix gene chips and the Stanford cDNA microarray platform were pooled after data transformation as described in the text. Gene expression data by the two different platforms were matched by either Unigene ID matching or by redefining the Affymetrix probe sets based on the sequence overlap criteria of the probes. The pooled gene expression profiles were subjected to average linkage hierarchical clustering. Matched cell-lines from the two platforms which cluster together are marked by red branches in the dendrogram. (A) Unigene-matched measurements tended to cluster the cell-lines by measurement platform, and produced only 28 instances of matched cell-lines clustering together. (B) Sequence-overlapping probe measurements produced more (43) instances of matched cell-lines from each platform clustering together.

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