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The inverse also holds true, where highly expressed genes, having less error in their measured levels, may not meet an arbitrary fold-change cut-off of 2.0 even when they are truly differentially expressed [ 12 ] . Therefore, selecting differentially regulated genes based only on a single fold change across the entire range of experimental data preferentially selects lowly expressed genes [ 8 ] . This commonly used approach does not accommodate for background noise, variability, non-specific binding, or low copy numbers- characteristics typical of microarray data which may not be homogeneously distributed.
Frederick Douglass argued that slavery was a sin because by “subjecting one man to the arbitrary control of another, it contravenes the first command of the Decalogue.
Typical of the county is still the arbitrary pronounciation of the letters ee: sheep is often pronounced as ship and week as wick.
Setting a threshold level for the clusters is arbitrary, and as some candidate genes may be expressed by only a small subset of cells in the experimental sample, each analysis must be evaluated separately.
While it is obviously important that we can learn arbitrary associations between stimuli and actions, it is also extremely important that we can relatively easily break these associations and learn others.