Construction of a map of segmentation gene expression in Drosophila embryo: data processing steps

Step 1 : Data Acquisition

Acquisition of quantitative data on gene expression in individual embryos

Step 2 : Data Registration

Excision of 10 % stripe of quantitative data

Feature extraction

Registration

Step 3: Data Normalization

Rescaling of data to bring data to unified standard form with a zero background

Step 4: Data Averaging

Construction of the integrated pattern of each gene expression