How are biological sample replicates treated in our expression data and statistics?
Across the site, we use and display data pertaining to biological replicates that have been collapsed (averaged), with few exceptions. In our expression results, only scatter plots show un-collapsed sample expression, however the bar graphs and box plots aggregate biological replicate samples for a given sample or chip type (or other experimental metadata). In these cases, we provide error bars and standard deviations for sample expression.
