Title: A novel stationary wavelet denoising algorithm for array-based DNA Copy Number data

Authors: Yuhang Wang, Siling Wang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 6425 North Ownby Drive, Dallas, TX 75205, USA. ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 6425 North Ownby Drive, Dallas, TX 75205, USA

Abstract: High-throughput microarrays have recently been developed to detect DNA Copy Number (DCN) aberrations. The resulting DCN data is often very noisy. Previous denoising methods proposed for DCN data assumed uniform spacing between adjacent probes, which is not true and can potentially result in erroneous output. To address this issue, we developed a novel stationary wavelet denoising scheme for DCN data. Empirical results on synthetic data showed that our method outperformed the best previous method by 4.6–12.7% in terms of the root mean squared error. Experiments on a real data set also confirmed the applicability of our method.

Keywords: wavelet denoising; DNA copy numbers; DCN; array CGH; SNP arrays; bioinformatics; microarrays; stationary wavelets; no-uniform spacing; comparative genomic hybridisation; single nucleotide polymorphism.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2007.013603

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2007 Vol.3 No.2, pp.206 - 222

Published online: 09 May 2007 *

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