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These situations can be rectified in arbitrary ways; for instance, by setting backgrounds to a non-zero value and using a logarithm transform of the ratio.
Each band was labeled with a three-part designation representing the anchored primer (H-T 11 -A, H-T 11 -G, or H-T 11 -C), arbitrary primer (API - 8), and the number of the differential band in the lane from the well.
"If I remember camp correctly, surrendering completely to an arbitrary and irrational authority under the threat of violence."
Other factors such as sensitivity of the Incyte microarray technology, the arbitrary twofold cutoff, etc. may also contribute to false negative results.
One of the first definitions to emerge was the arbitrary designation of a particular level of - usually two-fold up or down regulation - gene expression as representing 'significance' [ 4 5 ] . Such arbitrary definitions emerged from the observation that fold-regulation of genes between control cultures with identical cell populations seldom varies by more than this level (discussed by Ideker et al.