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At this point in analysis, you would should explore the data preliminarily. Do the genes you expected to be differentially regulated appear to have larger or smaller intensity values?  Do similar samples resemble each other? 

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In the scatter plot, each point represents a chip (sample) and corresponds to a row on the top-level spreadsheet. The color of the dot represents the type Type of the sample; red represents a normal sample and blue represents a Down syndrome sample. Points that are close together in the plot have similar intensity values across the probe sets on the whole chip (genome), and while points that are far apart in the plot are dissimilar

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SubtitleText PCA scatter plot with ellipses, rotated to show separation by Type AnchorName PCA Scatter Plot with Ellipses

PCA is an example of exploratory data analysis and is useful for identifying outliers and major effects in the data. From the scatter plot, you can see that the tissue is the biggest source of variation. There are many genes that express differently between the 4 tissues, but not as many genes that express differently between type (Down syndrome and normal) across the whole chip (genome).

The next step is to draw a histogram to examine the samples. Select Plot Sample Histogram in the QA/QC section of the Gene Expression workflow to generate the Histogram tab (Figure 6).

 

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SubtitleText Histogram tab AnchorName Histogram

The histogram plots one line for each of the samples with the intensity of the probes graphed on the X-axis and the frequency of the probe intensity on the Y-axis. This allows you to view the distribution of the intensities to identify any outliers. In this dataset, all the samples follow the same distribution pattern indicating that there are no obvious outliers in the data. As demonstrated with the PCA plot, if you click on any of the lines in the histogram, the corresponding row will be highlighted in the spreadsheet 1 (Down_Syndrome-GE). You can also change the way the histogram displays the data by clicking on the Plot Properties button. Explore Feel free to explore these options on your own.

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