Replicates
It is important to note the necessity of replicates in conducting microarray experiments. Like any other quantitative measurement, repeated experiments provide the ability to conduct confidence analysis and identify differentially expressed genes at a given level of confidence. More replicates provide more confidence in determining differentially expressed genes. In practice, three to five replicates would be ideal.
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