Correlation of batch with clinical traits (READ: can be found here, COAD: can be found here). READ, number of batches: 11, COAD, number of batches: 15
Additional technical variables to be considered in normalization: batch (6th field in the patient's barcode), center (2nd field in the patients' barcode), amount, barcode bottom (?), concentration, day, month, year (to be concatenated and considered as a single variable), plate row, plate column. This information is available from clinical_aliquot_public_CANCERTYPE.txt files.
DNA methylation: 27k, level1 downloaded on December 19th, 2011.