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Assessing potential insufficiencies of Gaussian noise in microarray data analysis is thus important and of general interest.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We propose to this end assessing different noise models on a large number of microarray experiments. The goodness of fit of noise models is quantified by a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of variance model, which predicts normalized expression values as a mixture of a Gaussian density and t-distributions with adjustable degrees of freedom. Inference of differentially expressed genes is taken into consideration at a second mixing level. For attaining far reaching validity, our investigations cover a wide range of analysis platforms and experimental settings. As the most striking result, we find irrespective of the chosen preprocessing and normalization method in all experiments that a heavy-tailed noise model is a better fit than a simple Gaussian. Further investigations revealed that an appropriate choice of noise model has a considerable influence on biological interpretations drawn at the level of inferred genes and gene ontology terms. We conclude from our investigation that neglecting the over dispersed noise in microarray data can mislead scientific discovery and suggest that the convenience of Gaussian-based modelling should be replaced by non-parametric approaches or other methods that account for heavy-tailed noise.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0peter.sykacek@boku.ac.at<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: \u00a0http:\/\/bioinf.boku.ac.at\/alexp\/robmca.html.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr018","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,21]],"date-time":"2011-01-21T01:28:28Z","timestamp":1295573308000},"page":"807-814","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Biological assessment of robust noise models in microarray data analysis"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"A.","family":"Posekany","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor Mendel Stra\u00dfe 33, 1180, Vienna and 2Department of Statistics, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"K.","family":"Felsenstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor Mendel Stra\u00dfe 33, 1180, Vienna and 2Department of Statistics, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"Sykacek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Chair of Bioinformatics, Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor Mendel Stra\u00dfe 33, 1180, Vienna and 2Department of Statistics, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511554980200_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1469","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2007.2129","article-title":"Understanding endothelial cell apoptosis: what can the transcriptome, glycome and proteome reveal?","volume":"362","author":"Affara","year":"2007","journal-title":"Philos. 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