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to control the false discovery rate are employed to improve the down selection process [33].<br />

However, in the following experiments we did not implement such c<strong>or</strong>rection eff<strong>or</strong>ts, <strong>or</strong> other<br />

alg<strong>or</strong>ithmic optimizations, in <strong>or</strong>der to see the full range <strong>of</strong> possible solutions and to see where<br />

overlap <strong>of</strong> genes occurs even if the significance assigned by the different methods is quite<br />

different. The Bonferroni c<strong>or</strong>rection has been applied to the datasets in Chapter 5. The results <strong>of</strong><br />

the t-test categ<strong>or</strong>ized the ProbeSets into two classes: uninf<strong>or</strong>mative and differentially expressed.<br />

The datasets are available in the Supplementary Materials, in the Data folder. Additionally,<br />

within the Data folder is a README file, which details the naming convention and the flags<br />

which identify ProbeSets and their classifications, including the Bonferroni c<strong>or</strong>rection<br />

classifications.<br />

Published Candidate Gene Lists<br />

In the <strong>or</strong>iginal rep<strong>or</strong>t <strong>of</strong> the Bhattacharjee experiment, two ProbeSet lists were developed, based<br />

upon the signal intensity reproducibility across 45 adenocarcinoma replicated samples, where<br />

reproducibility was assessed based on whether these ProbeSets had Pearson c<strong>or</strong>relation sc<strong>or</strong>es<br />

above the 0.8 and 0.85 thresholds [3]. These lists consisted <strong>of</strong> 675 and 363 ProbeSets,<br />

respectively, f<strong>or</strong> the c<strong>or</strong>relations 0.8 and 0.85. The cleansing methods used by the <strong>or</strong>iginal<br />

auth<strong>or</strong>s were quite complex, and neither the ProbeSet values n<strong>or</strong> the exact gene lists could, in<br />

fact, be perfectly replicated using the published descriptions [3, 34]. We decided to take those<br />

genes from their lists that survived the BaFL pipeline, that is, that had been cleansed <strong>of</strong> the<br />

known extraneous fact<strong>or</strong>s leading to variability, and see if the genes remaining had strengths f<strong>or</strong><br />

classification that our own down-selection method missed. That is, the point was to determine<br />

whether the <strong>or</strong>iginal selection methods had merits that our own procedures lack. Of the <strong>or</strong>iginal<br />

ProbeSets lists, 267 and 136 (f<strong>or</strong> 0.8 and 0.85 thresholds respectively) survived the BaFL<br />

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