Re: [aroma.affymetrix] Incorporating Tumor Purity for ASCRMA / PSCBS

2016-04-23 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
In the PSCBS package, we provide the `estimateKappa()` function for estimating kappa, which we refer to as "background signal", cf. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PSCBS/vignettes/PairedPSCBS.pdf. The kappa parameter is strongly correlated with the amount of normal contamination. We're

[aroma.affymetrix] Incorporating Tumor Purity for ASCRMA / PSCBS

2016-04-22 Thread Kevin McCormick
Is there a way to incorporate tumor purity estimates (e.g. from ASCAT) into the Aroma pipeline for segmenting copy number changes between parent and tumor? We are looking at cell lines derived from tumors to compare consistency between copy number variations. The tumor purity in the parental