Sentence examples for excluding spots from inspiring English sources

Filtering was performed by first excluding spots automatically flagged by the GenePix software.

Stained crumbs originating from the dyes were eliminated by excluding spots with an area below 300.

"All genes" were extracted excluding spots flagged as Bad/Not found, and spots with target diameters less than 50 μm or greater than 300 μm.

To boost the power of the test, we applied 3-class SAM on the whole array by excluding spots with more than 6 missing values.

Although excluding spots with very low intensity could eliminate the difference in performance between the Imin and Iavg pooling metrics, this approach would make it impossible to detect low-expressed regulated genes, which may be biologically significant.

Briefly, the raw data set was filtered according to standard procedure to exclude spots with minimum intensity and size.

The miRNA dataset was filtered according to the standard procedure to exclude spots with minimum intensity and size.

software and Acuity 4.0 (Axon Ins).. We used the Autoflag function to exclude spots for which the signal intensity was not higher than the local background.

The following selection criteria were applied: all spots having a mean signal (after background subtraction) less than that of the background and below that of the negative controls in both Cy3 and Cy5 channels were systematically excluded; the data were also filtered to exclude spots flagged as missing or corrupted in one array.

After normalization of the intensities, the data were filtered to exclude spots with intensities less than twice the background (150 pixels) in either channel and finally, only spots with a normalized ratio greater than 1.5 were considered, since a minimum of 1.4-fold change in differential expression can be accurately detected [27].

First, we excluded spots that were considered badly formed features.