Table 5

Number and percentage of true-positive outliers with the highest LOD score for SMART and GA amplification techniques applied to 10 pg of total RNA from NIH 3T3 fibroblast cells

Cutoff level (top number of outliers)

SMART

GA

True positive

LOD score

True positive

LOD score

1,000

432 (43.2%)

-3.13

324 (32.4%)

-0.45

500

311 (62.20%)

-1.48

281 (56.0%)

0.315

100

81 (81.0%)

1.43

40 (40%)

2.110

Subkhankulova and Livesey Genome Biology 2006 7:R18   doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-3-r18