vsn
This package is for version 3.16 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see vsn.
Variance stabilization and calibration for microarray data
DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.vsn
Bioconductor version: 3.16
The package implements a method for normalising microarray intensities from single- and multiple-color arrays. It can also be used for data from other technologies, as long as they have similar format. The method uses a robust variant of the maximum-likelihood estimator for an additive-multiplicative error model and affine calibration. The model incorporates data calibration step (a.k.a. normalization), a model for the dependence of the variance on the mean intensity and a variance stabilizing data transformation. Differences between transformed intensities are analogous to "normalized log-ratios". However, in contrast to the latter, their variance is independent of the mean, and they are usually more sensitive and specific in detecting differential transcription.
Author: Wolfgang Huber, with contributions from Anja von Heydebreck. Many comments and suggestions by users are acknowledged, among them Dennis Kostka, David Kreil, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Robert Gentleman, Deepayan Sarkar and Gordon Smyth
Maintainer: Wolfgang Huber <wolfgang.huber at embl.org>
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Installation
To install this package, start R (version "4.2") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("vsn")
For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
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browseVignettes("vsn")
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