Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Pythagorean system of music, the smaller half-step or semitone, being the remnant of a perfect fourth after subtracting from it two whole steps or “tones”: . A limma and an apotome together made a “tone”: . Also called
Pythagorean semitone or hemitone. - noun In prosody, a monosemic empty time or pause; a time equal to one mora or semeion, existing in the rhythm, but not expressed by a syllable in the words.
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- noun music Any of several small musical
intervals , such as thesemitone
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Examples
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The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances.
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Khinianabi ( 'En han-nabi), Zarki-tsabtat, Khaini (' En), and Ibi-limma
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Statistical analysis of differential gene expression was performed using the limma and lumi R/Bioconductor packages.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ville Härmä et al. 2010
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When used for its designed purpose, Messina performed favourably when compared to a popular and highly powerful analysis platform, limma.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Pinese et al. 2009
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To facilitate comparison between Messina and limma results, the rank of Messina's reported probeset classifier margin (a measure of the robustness of the trained classifier) was compared to the log To validate Messina's results, we measured expression of S100A2 protein by immunohistochemistry upon a separate patient cohort from that used in the microarray data
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Pinese et al. 2009
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Briefly, the function lmFit in limma accepts a model matrix, which describes the experimental design and produces an output object of class
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jacqueline Schmuckli-Maurer et al. 2009
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These approaches are complementary: limma and other conventional microarray analyses are appropriate to detect genes that are differentially expressed in close to every single sample of a group, whereas Messina is optimised to detect differences between groups even if the differential expression is present at a low frequency.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Pinese et al. 2009
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These approaches are complementary: limma and other conventional microarray analyses are appropriate to detect genes that are differentially expressed in close to every single sample of a group, whereas Messina is optimised to detect differences between groups even if the differential expression is present at a low frequency.
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The array data were analysed separately using Messina and limma.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Pinese et al. 2009
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A third probeset selected by limma was rejected outright by Messina (Figure 3b, panel u).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mark Pinese et al. 2009
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