David Bickel, statistician

Z. Yang, Z. Li, and D. R. Bickel, “Empirical Bayes estimation of posterior probabilities of enrichment,” Technical Report, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Technical Report, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, arXiv:1201.0153 (2011). Full preprint | 2010 seed

This paper adapts novel empirical Bayes methods for the problem of detecting enrichment in the form of differential representation of genes associated with a biological category with respect to a list of genes identified as differentially expressed. A microarray case study illustrates the methods using Gene Ontology (GO) terms, and a simulation study compares their performance. We report that which enrichment methods work best depends strongly on how many GO terms or other biological categories are of interest.