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. 2009 Jan 30;10(Suppl 1):S24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S24

Table 2.

The properties of the normalization methods. MAS, Z, HK, Q, and WBL are sample-wise normalization and the gene-wise method AGC can be merged to each of them. This table lists the properties of each method.

MAS Z HK Q WBL AGC
Sample-wise normalization Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Gene-wise normalization No No No No No Yes

Considers the array generation No No No No Yes Yes

Includes scaling Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes

Based on distribution No No No Yes Yes No

May change the order of the values within a sample No No No No No Yes