Assignment 4

 

1. Median Polish

 

a) Expression levels in four organs

Probe                                                                                                                          Leaf                                        Root                 Panicle                       Suspension_Cells

AGCAAAAATCATCAGCCTCTTCGTTACGATCGGTGA                                 212.22223                               178.0               177.77777                               161.88889

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b) Install R

http://cran.r-project.org/

 

c) Install Bioconductor

http://www.bioconductor.org/download

 

d) Use the median polish method from the affy package to do median polish.

> c <- matrix(, 3,2)

> c

     [,1] [,2]

[1,]   NA   NA

[2,]   NA   NA

[3,]   NA   NA

> c[,1]=c (0.1, 0.2, 0.4)

> c[,2]=c (0.5, 0.2, 0.4)

> c

     [,1] [,2]

[1,]  0.1  0.5

[2,]  0.2  0.2

[3,]  0.4  0.4

 

> library(affy)

 

> medpolish(c, eps=0.01)

1 : 0.4

Final: 0.4

 

Median Polish Results (Dataset: "c")

 

Overall: 0.3

 

Row Effects:

[1]  0.0 -0.1  0.1

 

Column Effects:

[1] 0 0

 

Residuals:

     [,1] [,2]

[1,] -0.2  0.2

[2,]  0.0  0.0

[3,]  0.0  0.0

 

2. Submit the expression matrix before and after median polish in separate files

 

Probe                                                                                                                          Leaf                                        Root                 Panicle                       Suspension_Cells

AGCAAAAATCATCAGCCTCTTCGTTACGATCGGTGA                                 212.22223                               178.0               177.77777                               161.88889

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a) Submit the files through eagle system

b) It is due at 11:59pm March 30.