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Table 1 Analysis choices of various studies of the "Golden Spike" data set. These are choices we believe were made for each of the six stages of the analysis pipeline we have outlined.

From: A comprehensive re-analysis of the Golden Spike data: Towards a benchmark for differential expression methods

Study

Summarization method

Post-summ Normalization

DE method

Dir

True positives

True negatives

Choe et al. [4]

CP, MAS5.0, RMA, GCRMA, MBEI plus many variants of these

none, loess_invariant

t-test, Cyber-T, SAM

either

FC >1

invariant

Liu et al. [13]

CP, multi-mgMOS

loess_invariant

Cyber-T, PPLR

up

FC >1

invariant

Hochreiter et al. [15]

MAS5.0, RMA, MBEI and FARMS

none

SAM

up

FC >1

invariant

Chen et al. [16]

CP, MAS5.0, RMA, GCRMA, MBEI, PLIER, FARMS and DFW

none

FC

either

FC >1 and FC = x(for all x)

invariant

Current study

CP, MAS5.0, RMA, GCRMA, MBEI, multi-mgMOS, FARMS, DFW, PLIER

none, loess_invariant, loess_equal, loess_all

FC, t-test, Cyber-T, limma and PPLR

either, up and down

FC >1, low FC, medium FC, high FC and FC = x(for all x)

equal and invariant