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Appropriate informative priors for the variance of microarray data are currently under investigation by a number of groups [ 34, 35, 36].
All these methods have considerable potential to be incorporated as priors into a framework such as that presented here, so that the prior may be applied to multiple samples from different genotypes, environments or developmental states.
The impact of using less-vague priors, especially for the variance, when there are few comparisons, is under investigation by a number of researchers.
Since our algorithms are based on searching for clusters of common sites, microsatellites can score high, but tend not to be functional (for an exception see [ 9 ] ). We used the Tandem Repeat Remover [ 17 ] to mask microsatellites, with scoring parameters (2 5 5 75 20 20 500) (respectively; match, mismatch, indel scores; percentage priors for mismatch and indels; minimum score, and maximum length) which are as promiscuous as possible yet did not detect appreciable microsatellites in random sequences.
Furthermore, the intuition we as readers have learned from years of interpreting point estimates and frequentist confidence intervals is to, roughly, treat them as calculations based on flat priors and then roughly incorporate them into whatever actual prior belief we have.