Microarray Quality Control

by Zhang Wei

Microarray technology provides researchers in the life sciences with a revolutionary tool for measuring gene expression. However, this highly developed process involves multiple steps, from sample selection to data analysis, each susceptible to potentially costly errors. Without sound quality control, experimental microarrays may produce useless or, even worse, misleading results.
Microarray Quality Control provides a comprehensive resource for ensuring quality control in every step of this complex process. From experimental design to data processing, analysis, and interpretation, the emphasis in this text remains on practical advice for each stage of planning and running a microarray study. Chapters
* Quality of biological samples
* Quality of DNA
* Hybridization protocols Scanning
* Data acquisition
* Image analysis
* Data analysis
Written for the broad group of workers-biologists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, physicians, and computational scientists-involved in microarray studies, Microarray Quality Control features a straightforward style easily accessed by various disciplines. Useful checklists and tips help ensure the integrity of results, and each chapter contains a thorough review of pertinent literature.
The only complete, systematic treatment of the topic available, Microarray Quality Control offers students and practitioners an invaluable resource for improving experimental quality and efficiency.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 2005

About the author

Zhang Wei is a contemporary writer and Chairman of the Writers Association of Shandong Province. He was born in Longkou in 1956. In 1975, he began publishing his works. His Collected Works of Zhang Wei, published in 48 volumes, has been translated into English, Japanese, French, Korean, German, Serbian, Spanish, and Swiss languages.

He has written 20 novels, including The Ancient Ship, September's Fable, Songs from the Forest, Another Province, On the Plateau, and The Single Pharmacist. The Ancient Ship and several of his other works were selected among the “Bainian Baizhong Youxiu Zhongguo Wenxue Tushu” (“100 Most Extraordinary Chinese Literary Works in a Century”), the “Top 100 Chinese-language Novels of the 20th Century” by the Chinese New Literature Series, and the “World’s Top 10 Chinese-language Novels” by Yazhou Zhoukan.

His works have received special awards and have been nominated for major literary honors such as the National Outstanding Novel Award, the Maodun Literature Award, and the China Writer Publisher Group Award during the eighth period of China’s Five-Year Development Plan.

His young adult literary works, including Life on the Peninsula, The Young Boy and the Sea, and Looking for the King of Fishing, received an enthusiastic response and earned 20 award nominations, including the Five One Project Award and Best Books of China 2015.