Talk:Gene chip analysis

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[edit] Already have article on DNA microarray

I realize that this article talks about the analysis of microarrays, but the DNA microarray article already has a short section talking about some of the statistical challenges in analyzing this type of data. I love bioinformatics and all, but I don't know if the analysis of microarray data deserves its own wikipedia article. Algorithms and statistical tests deserve their own articles. Classic bioinformatics methods that work on raw data (such as sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, and protein folding prediction) deserve their own articles. But the analysis of data specific to a technology that may have a limited shelf life doesn't warrant an article, in my opinion. The same would go for methods of analyzing cell sorting data or base calling algorithms for DNA sequencing.

Just my two cents. Forluvoft 04:07, 10 November 2007 (UTC)