Oxford University Press (OUP), Bioinformatics, 13(31), p. 2235-2237
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv127
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Summary: High-throughput omics datasets often contain technical replicates included to account for technical sources of noise in the measurement process. Although summarizing these replicate measurements by using robust averages may help to reduce the influence of noise on downstream data analysis, the information on the variance across the replicate measurements is lost in the averaging process and therefore typically disregarded in subsequent statistical analyses.