*NTAC, the National Technical Assistance Center, was a Home Office agency established for data decryption and analysis, whose responsibilities have since been folded into GCHQ.
The CHG established innovative systems for data analysis and storage coupled with high-throughput genetic assays.
There is a need to establish robust benchmarks for data analysis for the comparison of different analytical approaches/software.
It is important to obtain informed consent from patients before sample collection, to register and store samples, to establish banking systems, and to build databases for data analysis.
To move the science of offender-based research forward, the authors provide an example of standardized data collection procedures (perpetrator-motive research design; PMRD), and describe one example of an established qualitative research method for data analysis, consensual qualitative research (CQR).
Its potentially adverse effects, incorrect identification of differentially expressed transcripts and overly-optimistic significance tests, can be fully avoided, however, by the sound application of recently established theory and models for data analysis.
To perform data analysis, the research team held several discussion meetings during and after data collection, and established specific protocols and templates for data analysis.
After the success of last year's meeting that discussed initial analysis strategies for this then-new platform, this year's meeting (held at Queen Mary, University of London) included the presentation of now established pipelines and normalization methods for data analysis, as well as some exciting tools for down-stream analysis.
EK and ADM were responsible for patients' enrollment and injective treatment; BDM and MLM were involved in patients' evaluation at the established follow-ups; GF was responsible for data analysis; GF and BDM were responsible for writing the paper; AC and PMF took care of PRP production and storage; MM performed the final revision of the article.
The hope is that our method will further contribute to establishing biclustering as a general purpose tool for data analysis in functional genomics.
