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While this is satisfactory for many applications, for certain kinds of quantitative network modeling and analysis of expression noise, absolute measures of expression are necessary.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We propose two methods for estimating molecular copy numbers from single uncalibrated expression images of tissues. These methods rely on expression variability between cells, due either to steady-state fluctuations or unequal distribution of molecules during cell division, to make their estimates. We apply these methods to 152 protein fluorescence expression images of Drosophila melanogaster embryos during early development, generating copy number estimates for 14 genes in the segmentation network. We also analyze the effects of noise on our estimators and compare with empirical findings. Finally, we confirm an observation of Bar-Even et al., made in the much different setting of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that steady-state expression variance tends to scale with mean expression.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: The data are all drawn from FlyEx (explained within), and is available at http:\/\/flyex.ams.sunysb.edu\/FlyEx\/. Data and MATLAB codes for all algorithms described in this article are available at http:\/\/www.perkinslab.ca\/pubs\/ZP2009.html.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0tperkins@ohri.ca<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp415","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,7,3]],"date-time":"2009-07-03T00:34:52Z","timestamp":1246581292000},"page":"2670-2676","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Statistical lower bounds on protein copy number from fluorescence expression images"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Lee","family":"Zamparo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 and 2 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6"}]},{"given":"Theodore J.","family":"Perkins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 and 2 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L6"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,7,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112132594800_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e153","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.0030153","article-title":"An information-theoretic characterization of the optimal gradient sensing response of cells","volume":"3","author":"Andrews","year":"2007","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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