# Generate beta value

This task is only available on imported microarray methylation data node. The microarray methylation node contains probe methylated/unmethylated signal intensities on green/red channels on each sample. Beta value needs to be generated for each probe in each sample, which represents the ratio of methylation at a CpG site \[1]: methylated intensity divided by the total intensity. The range of beta value is between 0 and 1.

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Information about which array type needs to be retrieved from the manifest file, select the chip name from the drop-down list.

During the conversion, probe filtering can be performed. Depends on the study, probes on X/Y chromosomes can be filtered out to reduce the data size.

When check *Exclude probes using detection p-value* option, specify the p-value cutoff and number of samples.

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Choose one of the normalization method:[ NOOB](http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html), [Functional](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html), or None and corresponding parameter settings.

Click **Finish** to run the task, it will generate *Methylation beta data node*.

In the Advanced options configure dialog, there are options to output more values of each probe besides beta value:

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Each check option will result a .tsv file. The extra information can only be downloaded. After the task is finished, click on the Microarray methylation task (rectangle) and choose Task details > View output files to retrieve the file(s).

## Reference

1. <https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/minfi.html>