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The result is a curve that defines the contour of the nonlinear long-range trend in the data.
A rectangular contour was then drawn selecting the uncrushed segment of the nerve section to the left of the crushed segment using the NIH Image rectangle tool.
The area outside the spot contour but inside the cell is used to calculate local background.
The nuclear contour as well as the shape of the nucleolus, for which GFP-LacI/NLS has relatively low accessibility and which thus appears as an opaque object within the nucleus, can be captured along with the tagged loci positions by single channel excitation.
If we arbitrarily assign the node with the lower estimated expression to a level of unity and assume an equal error variance in both treatment and control, there are only two parameters to estimate: the mean expression level of the higher-expressed node, and their common error variance 2. Figure 2ashows contour plots of the likelihood functions (see Materials and methods) for genes for three yeast transcriptional regulators ( MSN4 , HSF1 and GCR1 ) that could potentially be responsible for observed downstream changes discussed later in this text.