The force platform measures obtained using the Balance Master System, which included weight-bearing symmetry, sway, and movement time during performing 6 tasks: weight bearing and squat, unilateral stance with eyes open, rhythmic weight shift, sit to stand, tandem walk, and step up and over.
Assuming a platform drift amplitude of 10 m, a long-term platform drift period of 250 s, and a significant wave height of 4 m, the time history of floating platform motion is obtained using the method described previously; the results are shown in Fig. 4.
When comparing the MCP-1 levels measured with the MSD platform with the levels obtained using the RANDOX platform, the mean difference was 131 pg/ml, with 95% limits of agreement ranging from −64 to 326 pg/ml.
A typical use is loading a GEO [ 37] Platform file, in order to parse expression datasets obtained using that platform.
In addition to the pre-analytical potential challenges, researchers from many laboratories have now found that miRNA profiling results obtained using different platforms can vary dramatically for individual miRNAs despite good overall inter-platform correlation [17 21].
Comparing microarray data obtained using different platforms is far from straightforward but there are examples showing that cross-platform comparisons can give reliable results.
For datasets obtained using different platforms, the best cutoff calculation was performed to obtain cutoff values for each risk group.
A summary of the concordance of Ion Proton (409-gene panel) sequencing results with results obtained using orthogonal platforms is included in Table 1.
For example, GEO [ 1] and ArrayExpress [ 2] are public repositories of well-annotated and curated transcript profiling data from diverse species and varied phenomena obtained using different platforms and technologies.
We selected from the Bgee database (Bastian et al., 2008) seven homologous human and mouse organs represented by high numbers of microarray results, obtained using Affymetrix platforms HG-U133_Plus_2 and Mouse430_2, respectively.
