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This web page was produced as an assignment for a course on Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data at Pomona College.

Below is a microarray from this experiment (image from Stanford Microarray Database archive). As is evident, the background is quite concerning, especially the areas where there appears to be tape on the chip itself. Such strong and immediate changes in background intensities can create problems for background subtraction in data analysis.