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We then compute the inner product (essentially the correlation) of each gene with the eigen gene, and discard ('shave off') a fraction of the genes having lowest (absolute) inner product.
In the case of Affymetrix data, it is often necessary to discard minimal and negative ADIs, as these data are both biologically and mathematically difficult to interpret.
If they start looking a bit hoary, we discard them on the grounds that there are always new ones appearing, and, these days, language changes are so rapid that a usage might have become standard by the time a five-year interval has passed.
Hoping to encourage what may be a nascent trend toward rationalism, Chatterbox hereby challenges other religions to step forward and discard outdated doctrines, such as, oh, papal infallibility, or Judaism's silly prejudice against crabcakes and Lobster Thermidor.
In high-throughput applications such as routine diagnostic examinations, where a large number of hybridizations may be performed using a standard microarray-design, the ROC-plot area may be used as a 'hybridization quality checkpoint' to either accept or discard individual microarray hybridizations (for example 0.990 for array 1 and 2, Table 2).