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Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks

BACKGROUND: The usefulness of the data from Affymetrix microarray analysis depends largely on the reliability of the files describing the correspondence between probe sets, genes and transcripts. Particularly, when a gene is targeted by several probe sets, these files should give information about t...

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Autor principal: Bellis, Michel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3630002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23517579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-107
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description BACKGROUND: The usefulness of the data from Affymetrix microarray analysis depends largely on the reliability of the files describing the correspondence between probe sets, genes and transcripts. Particularly, when a gene is targeted by several probe sets, these files should give information about the similarity of each alternative probe set pair. Transcriptional networks integrate the multiple correlations that exist between all probe sets and supply much more information than a simple correlation coefficient calculated for two series of signals. In this study, we used the PSAWN (Probe Set Assignment With Networks) programme we developed to investigate whether similarity of alternative probe sets resulted in some specific properties. FINDINGS: PSAWNpy delivered a full textual description of each probe set and information on the number and properties of secondary targets. PSAWNml calculated the similarity of each alternative probe set pair and allowed finding relationships between similarity and localisation of probes in common transcripts or exons. Similar alternative probe sets had very low negative correlation, high positive correlation and similar neighbourhood overlap. Using these properties, we devised a test that allowed grouping similar probe sets in a given network. By considering several networks, additional information concerning the similarity reproducibility was obtained, which allowed defining the actual similarity of alternative probe set pairs. In particular, we calculated the common localisation of probes in exons and in known transcripts and we showed that similarity was correctly correlated with them. The information collected on all pairs of alternative probe sets in the most popular 3’ IVT Affymetrix chips is available in tabular form at http://bns.crbm.cnrs.fr/download.html. CONCLUSIONS: These processed data can be used to obtain a finer interpretation when comparing microarray data between biological conditions. They are particularly well adapted for searching 3’ alternative poly-adenylation events and can be also useful for studying the structure of transcriptional networks. The PSAWNpy, (in Python) and PSAWNml (in Matlab) programmes are freely available and can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/arraymatic. Tutorials and reference manuals are available at BMC Research Notes online (Additional file 1) or from http://bns.crbm.cnrs.fr/softwares.html.
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spelling pubmed-36300022013-04-22 Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks Bellis, Michel BMC Res Notes Technical Note BACKGROUND: The usefulness of the data from Affymetrix microarray analysis depends largely on the reliability of the files describing the correspondence between probe sets, genes and transcripts. Particularly, when a gene is targeted by several probe sets, these files should give information about the similarity of each alternative probe set pair. Transcriptional networks integrate the multiple correlations that exist between all probe sets and supply much more information than a simple correlation coefficient calculated for two series of signals. In this study, we used the PSAWN (Probe Set Assignment With Networks) programme we developed to investigate whether similarity of alternative probe sets resulted in some specific properties. FINDINGS: PSAWNpy delivered a full textual description of each probe set and information on the number and properties of secondary targets. PSAWNml calculated the similarity of each alternative probe set pair and allowed finding relationships between similarity and localisation of probes in common transcripts or exons. Similar alternative probe sets had very low negative correlation, high positive correlation and similar neighbourhood overlap. Using these properties, we devised a test that allowed grouping similar probe sets in a given network. By considering several networks, additional information concerning the similarity reproducibility was obtained, which allowed defining the actual similarity of alternative probe set pairs. In particular, we calculated the common localisation of probes in exons and in known transcripts and we showed that similarity was correctly correlated with them. The information collected on all pairs of alternative probe sets in the most popular 3’ IVT Affymetrix chips is available in tabular form at http://bns.crbm.cnrs.fr/download.html. CONCLUSIONS: These processed data can be used to obtain a finer interpretation when comparing microarray data between biological conditions. They are particularly well adapted for searching 3’ alternative poly-adenylation events and can be also useful for studying the structure of transcriptional networks. The PSAWNpy, (in Python) and PSAWNml (in Matlab) programmes are freely available and can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/arraymatic. Tutorials and reference manuals are available at BMC Research Notes online (Additional file 1) or from http://bns.crbm.cnrs.fr/softwares.html. BioMed Central 2013-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3630002/ /pubmed/23517579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-107 Text en Copyright © 2013 Bellis; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title_full Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title_fullStr Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title_full_unstemmed Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title_short Estimating the similarity of alternative Affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
title_sort estimating the similarity of alternative affymetrix probe sets using transcriptional networks
topic Technical Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3630002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23517579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-107
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