A re-annotation pipeline for Illumina BeadArrays: improving the interpretation of gene expression data
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Publication Year 2010-01,Volume 38,Issue #3,Page -
Journal Title
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Publication Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Illumina BeadArrays are among the most popular and reliable platforms for gene expression profiling. However, little external scrutiny has been given to the design, selection and annotation of BeadArray probes, which is a fundamental issue in data quality and interpretation. Here we present a pipeline for the complete genomic and transcriptomic re-annotation of Illumina probe sequences, also applicable to other platforms, with its output available through a Web interface and incorporated into Bioconductor packages. We have identified several problems with the design of individual probes and we show the benefits of probe re-annotation on the analysis of BeadArray gene expression data sets. We discuss the importance of aspects such as probe coverage of individual transcripts, alternative messenger RNA splicing, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, repeat sequences, RNA degradation biases and probes targeting genomic regions with no known transcription. We conclude that many of the Illumina probes have unreliable original annotation and that our re-annotation allows analyses to focus on the good quality probes, which form the majority, and also to expand the scope of biological information that can be extracted.
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Keywords
HUMAN GENOME; MICROARRAY DATA; AFFYMETRIX; ARRAYS; TOOL; PROBESETS; LEVEL; MICE; UCSC; TRANSCRIPTION
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Creation Date: 2010-01-01 12:00:00
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