backgroundCorrect {limma} | R Documentation |
Apply background correction to microarray expression intensities.
backgroundCorrect(RG, method="subtract")
RG |
an RGList object or a unclassed list containing the same components as an RGList |
method |
character string specifying correction method. Possible values are "none" , "subtract" , "half" , "minimum" or "edwards" . |
If method="none"
then the corrected intensities are equal to the foreground intensities, i.e., the background intensities are treated as zero.
If method="subtract"
then this function simply subtracts the background intensities from the foreground intensities which is the usual background correction method.
If method="half"
then any intensity which is less than 0.5 after background subtraction is reset to be equal to 0.5.
If method="minimum"
then any intensity which is zero or negative after background subtraction is set equal to half the minimum of the positive corrected intensities for that array.
If method="edwards"
a log-linear interpolation method is used to adjust lower intensities as in Edwards (2003).
Background correction (background subtraction) is also performed by the normalizeWithinArrays
method for RGList
objects, so it is not necessary to call backgroundCorrect
directly unless one wants to use a method other than simple subtraction.
Calling backgroundCorrect
before normalizeWithinArrays
will over-ride the default background correction.
An RGList
object in which components R
and G
are background corrected
and components Rb
and Gb
are removed.
Gordon Smyth
Edwards, D. E. (2003). Non-linear normalization and background correction in one-channel cDNA microarray studies Bioinformatics 19, 825-833.
Yang, Y. H., Buckley, M. J., Dudoit, S., and Speed, T. P. (2002). Comparison of methods for image analysis on cDNA microarray data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 11, 108-136.
Yang, Y. H., Buckley, M. J., and Speed, T. P. (2001). Analysis of microarray images. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2, 341-349.
read.maimages
, normalizeWithinArrays
RG <- new("RGList", list(R=c(1,2,3,4),G=c(1,2,3,4),Rb=c(2,2,2,2),Gb=c(2,2,2,2))) backgroundCorrect(RG) backgroundCorrect(RG, method="half") backgroundCorrect(RG, method="minimum")