Research > Microarray Data Analysis > Affy
RMA expression measure (Introduction and Papers) The RMA (Robust Multichip Average) expression measure is for Affymetrix Genechip? arrays. It fits a robust linear model at the probe level. We have prepared some papers discussing the RMA methodology.

  • Irizarry, RA, Hobbs, B, Collin, F, Beazer-Barclay, YD, Antonellis, KJ, Scherf, U, Speed, TP (2003) Exploration, Normalization, and Summaries of High Density Oligonucleotide Array Probe Level Data. Biostatistics Vol. 4, Number 2: 249-264
    [Abstract, PDF, PS, Complementary Color Figures-PDF, Software]

  • Bolstad, B.M., Irizarry R. A., Astrand, M., and Speed, T.P. (2003)
    A Comparison of Normalization Methods for High Density Oligonucleotide Array Data Based on Bias and Variance. Bioinformatics 19(2):185-193
    [PDF preprint, Supplementary information]

  • Rafael. A. Irizarry, Benjamin M. Bolstad, Francois Collin, Leslie M. Cope, Bridget Hobbs and Terence P. Speed (2003)
    Summaries of Affymetrix GeneChip probe level data Nucleic Acids Research 31(4):e15
Software
  • Bioconductor: A collection of R packages for genomic data analysis. The affy package includes routines for the RMA expression measure and for quantile normalization
  • RMAExpress: A Windows program for computing the RMA expression measure
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Datasets (Concentrating on publically available CEL files)