Research Article

A New Normalizing Algorithm for BAC CGH Arrays with Quality Control Metrics

Table 3

Table comparing the percentage of values less than  .05 on the X chromosome. From this metric, we see that the “SmoothArray” procedure performs favorably compared to the grid loess and global median normalization methods.

Raw “SmoothArray” Grid loess Quantile normalization Global median Background subtraction

100% 93% 90% 100% 89% 100%