The structural and semantic heterogeneity of the data sources (including their diverse file formats, schemas, naming conventions, sampling approaches, measurement units, and detection limits) presented significant challenges to the data integration task.
Statistical evaluation of the common biological source for pairs of tumor/non-tumor samples showing mtDNA instabilities has been carried out according to standard forensic conventions for sample identification.
We assume the TGP convention whereby samples are sequenced separately to uniform depths [ 6, 7], instead of being pooled first.
The technology and conventions of sampling — isolating a musical snippet from one recording and reusing it for another — also kept him from greater recognition.
Young Living sells more than a hundred and fifty oils, and a section of the convention center featured samples of them.
Adopting the naming convention of snowball sampling in social network analysis (Wasserman and Faust 1994), each iteration of identified neighbors is termed a "zone".
The convention for psychiatric samples has been that patient inclusion is based on research diagnoses arrived at following detailed interview and phenotyping procedures (as is the case in the CardiffCOGS sample in this study).
Although the convention with urine samples is to normalise results for urine creatinine to correct for hydration status, differences in protein loading on SELDI chips can influence the profile (Rogers et al, 2003).
We designated our samples using the following naming convention: Station abbreviation, site number, sample replicate number e.g. AG1.2 is the second replicate sample from site 1 at AG station.
By convention, the experimental (tumor) sample is labeled with a red fluorophore (Cy 5, which fluoresces at 635 nm) and the reference sample is labeled with a green fluorophore (Cy 3, which fluoresces at 532 nm).
