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TPM or rlog(CPM) for comparing expression?

I want to see the expression of a gene in a group of patient amongst the entire cohort using my RNA-Seq data. While I can do a differential expression analysis with limma or DESeq2, I want to see how ...
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Interpreting this PCA plot for RNA-seq

I have RNA-seq from two sequencing batches; Lab technician says that he has run the RNA expression quantification two times in bathes 1 and 2 for example ...
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ComBat batch correction: understanding the model

A collaborator of mine is using ComBat for some RNA-seq data. I would like to understand what it's doing, and I have a specific question about the structure of the model. Equation 2.1 of the paper ...
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Combat for multiplatform batch correction

I have been looking ways to use data from various micro-array platform such as agilient, rosetta/merk. Some of the established method I came across is combat, but I'm not sure if it can be done for ...
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sva for RNA-Seq data without known phenotype

I have been working on RNA-Seq data from two different cohorts, and they show very strong batch effect (~35% variance explained by 1st component in PCA). Since I am trying to do a class discovery from ...
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How should I address batch effects in my experiment?

Let's say I have an RNA-Seq experiment, where I'm interested in the significantly differentiated genes between pre-treatment and post-treatment conditions. "rep" == biological replicate. ...
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How to get the corrected matrix after SVA batch effect correction

I ran SVA to remove batch effects for my bulk RNAseq experiments, but now I need to somehow correct my data matrix in order to ...
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Batch Effects in RNA Seq Sample

I am using the R (using EdgeR) for the RNA Seq analysis, I had few batch effect samples like Control vs treatment. Could anyone tell me the best way to remove the batch effects. I have looked into ...
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Is it possible to merge scRNAseq data from experiments with different design?

I have 4 different single-cell RNAseq experiments, each one representing a different sample of cell type population. I'd like to merge them to a single dataset. However, different cell types are ...
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ComBat for batch effects removal on scRNA-seq data

Is it possible to use sva's ComBat for batch effects removal on scRNA-seq data? Is there any difference between RNA-seq and scRNA-seq data which doesn't allow to use ComBat on single-cell data? (I am ...
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How hard is it to clean and QC gene expression microarray data?

I am a PhD student working on developing ideas for my dissertation papers. One of my planned papers will be working with some (human) gene expression data. I have had a class on working with gene ...
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Order of batch effects removal, data imputation and library size normalization in scRNA-seq data

I am preprocessing scRNA-seq data. What is the best practice in use to run both ComBat for batch effects removal, data imputation (to mitigate dropout) and library size normalization? I thought that ...