Sentence examples for backgrounds for comparison from inspiring English sources
The traditional detection and quantitation of phosphorylated MAPKs via Western blot analysis is laborious and somewhat arbitrary in the designation of appropriate densitometric backgrounds for comparison, especially in situations where the significant activation response is not large.
In addition to the data concerning this specific initiative, data from official statistics are used to provide a background for comparison.
Since the latter represents the approach of one and the same group using the same set of tools, it may provide a more consistent background for comparison.
Using the total number of genes presented in the array as a background for comparison, enriched GO terms were identified using a cut-off FDR of <5%.
The Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) program was used for gene ontology analysis using the total number of genes presented in the array as a background for comparison [ 49, 50].
Thus, using the Arabidopsis multinetwork [ 21] instead of the entire Arabidopsis genome as a background for comparison of over-represented terms among the lists of genes, "L/C Regulated (542)" and "Misregulated (92)" accounts for this possible bias.
The blood isolates are representatives of the circulating clones during the sampling periods and act as representatives of systemic infection whereas the stool isolates were used as the genetic background for comparison purpose.
The method investigated, hereafter called 'PRR-by-therapeutic area (PRR-TA)' restricts the background for comparison (b, d in Supplementary Table 1) to consist of drugs from the two respective therapeutic areas instead of all drugs in the EV.
Given that highly unstable and/or small proteins are hard to detect by MS, we used the SILAC-detected proteome as the background for comparison, instead of the whole yeast proteome.
As a biological network is a network with a truncated power-law distribution [32], it is more realistic to use a truncated power law preserving random network as the background for comparisons.
