LDA is a class-aware transformation attempting to minimise intra-class scatter while maximising interclass separation.
Several pCA2.4 transformation attempts were carried out to optimise the transformation process.
The first transformation attempts to eliminate the contribution from unspecific hybridization; the second transformation intends to make gene intensities from different experiments comparable (Quackenbush, 2002).
The knockout mutants for the hypothetical proteins Synpcc7942_1561 and Synpcc7942_1023 could not be obtained despite repeated transformation attempts, indicating that these genes may be essential for cell growth.
Principal component analysis was not an appropriate technique because we had a sparse matrix (i.e. there were many zeros) that did not approximate multivariate normality despite several transformation attempts (McCune and Grace, 2002).
Significantly, for those plasmids tested (Table 3) this method also proved to be applicable to C. sporogenes M-55 (Mose and Mose, 1964) and C. novyi-NT (Dang et al, 2001; Bettegowda et al, 2003), which had previously proven recalcitrant to all transformation attempts.
Other transformations attempted included square root, cube root, and inverse transformation.
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