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Notwithstanding, people who use dictionaries regularly become accustomed to one, which becomes their favorite for any number of reasons: for purposes of utility and for philosophical reasons, I prefer geographical and biographical entries to be interfiled with other entries in one alphabetical listing; others prefer to have them separate.
For the purposes of this article, these parameters were set to a minimum length of three genes, allowing gaps of three genes as well.
One can hardly expect to become steeped in the recondite style of a dictionary in such brief encounters, especially since they might well be for entirely different purposes.
Each GeneChip ®was scanned and analyzed using Affymetrix Microarray Analysis Suite (MAS) version 5.0 [ 11 ] . Each sample was scaled to a target intensity of 1000 using the "all probe sets" scaling option, this option scales the trimmed mean target intensity to the specified value [ 11 ] . The Affymetrix MAS5 expression report provides statistics for each chip that can be used for quality control purposes.
Skeletal muscle was used for the purposes of this study, but any tissue can be used for the establishment of benchmarks depending on the specific interests of individual labs.