Summary
* * * * PROJECT SUMMARY * * * * Abstract: Technical batch effects pose a fundamental challenge to quality control and reproducibility of even single-laboratory research projects, but the possibilities for serious error are greatly magnified in complex, multi- institutional enterprises such as the cancer molecular profiling projects being undertaken by the NCI Center for Cancer Genomics (CCG). To aid in detection, quantitation, interpretation, and (when appropriate) correction for technical batch effects in such data, we have developed the MBatch software system. MBatch proved indispensable for
