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Science 22 October 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5696, pp. 630 - 631
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5696.630
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Getting the Noise Out of Gene Arrays

Eliot Marshall

Thousands of papers have reported results obtained using gene arrays, which track the activity of multiple genes simultaneously. But are these results reproducible?

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