softNorm {MCMC.qpcr}

Accessory function to mcmc.qpcr() to perform soft normalization

Description

adds a fake NORM gene with counts equal to geometric mean of conrtol genes, removes control genes from the dataset

Usage

softNorm(data,controls)

Arguments

data

The dataset; output of cq2counts()

controls

Vector fo control gene names

Value

A modified dataset with NORM gene set as the reference, and no control genes

Author(s)

Mikhail Matz, UT Austin <[e-mail]>