Biomarker Benchmark - GSE4271

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"Novel prognostic subclasses of high-grade astrocytoma are identified and discovered to resemble stages in neurogenesis. One tumor class displaying neuronal lineage markers shows longer survival, while two tumor classes enriched for neural stem cell markers display equally short survival. Poor prognosis subclasses exhibit either markers of proliferation or of angiogenesis and mesenchyme. Analysis of gene expression data is described in Phillips et al., Cancer Cell, 2006. Keywords: Disease state comparison"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE4271

We have included gene-expression data, the outcome (class) being predicted, and any clinical covariates. When gene-expression data were processed in multiple batches, we have provided batch information. Each data set is organized into a file set, where each contains all pertinent files for an individual dataset. The gene expression files have been normalized using both the SCAN and UPC methods using the SCAN.UPC package in Bioconductor (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/SCAN.UPC.html). We summarized the data at the gene level using the BrainArray resource (http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/Brainarray/Database/CustomCDF/20.0.0/ensg.asp). We used Ensembl identifiers. The class, clinical, and batch data were hand curated to ensure consistency ("tidy data" formatting). In addition, the data files have been formatted to be imported easily into the ML-Flex machine learning package (http://mlflex.sourceforge.net/).