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Synthetic data sets for the identification of key ingredients for RNA-seq differential analysis.
Synthetic data sets for the identification of key ingredients for RNA-seq differential analysis.
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Briefings in bioinformatics [Brief Bioinform] 2018 Jan 01; Vol. 19 (1), pp. 65-76. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Numerous statistical pipelines are now available for the differential analysis of gene expression measured with RNA-sequencing technology. Most of them are based on similar statistical frameworks after normalization, differing primarily in the choice of data distribution, mean and variance estimation strategy and data filtering. We propose an evaluation of the impact of these choices when few biological replicates are available through the use of synthetic data sets. This framework is based on real data sets and allows the exploration of various scenarios differing in the proportion of non-differentially expressed genes. Hence, it provides an evaluation of the key ingredients of the differential analysis, free of the biases associated with the simulation of data using parametric models. Our results show the relevance of a proper modeling of the mean by using linear or generalized linear modeling. Once the mean is properly modeled, the impact of the other parameters on the performance of the test is much less important. Finally, we propose to use the simple visualization of the raw P-value histogram as a practical evaluation criterion of the performance of differential analysis methods on real data sets.<br /> (© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1477-4054
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Briefings in bioinformatics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27742662
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbw092