Six things you won't find in the MAQC
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A report from MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) consortium lists six things not covered about the microarrays that could generate reproducible gene expression data, both across platforms and across laboratories. One of the goals of MAQC was to remove doubts about array reproducibility so that regulatory agencies and array manufacturers could start work on how to make array data part of the drug submission process, but to date there are no accepted procedures for extracting signature gene lists (or biomarkers), which correlates with clinical outcome, from expression-profiling data.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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Making science fresh
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The winners of Fresh Science, a national competition that is running since the late 1990s founded by the late Ian Anderson, former Australasian editor for New Scientist aims to create a cadre of media-savvy researchers and to promote their work to the daily media. The winners, picked from a field of roughly 90 applicants who have each completed research that has not received much media coverage were made to go through mock television interviews to help them communicate better and describe their work with tolerable accuracy.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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