Affymetrix GeneChip of Arabidopsis Thaliana shows less effects of G-stack probes

Abstract

This paper discusses the effects of probes with runs of 4 Guanines (a G-stack) on data taken from the GeneChip of a very common and widely used model organism in plant biology.We have examined the chip on probe level data and further investigated its normalised data. It is demonstrated that unlike variousGeneChips of mammalia, data from Arabidopsis Thaliana GeneChip, the ATH1-121501, is unaffected.