This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| MA-plot |
A certain kind of scatter-plot commonly used for microarray analysis where the intensity measurements from microarrays are transformed in a special way. The. x-axis corresponds to the absolute intensity of the spot (A-value), the y-axis corresponds to a measure of differential expression (M-value). |