Questions tagged [deseq2]
Deseq2 is an R package for analyzing RNA sequencing data
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How to simulate replicates for DGE analysis?
I am prototyping with data visualization of DGE results, and I would like to work on the analysis pipeline before the real data is available. Currently, I only have 3 samples for wild type and 1 ...
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Help with performing PCA analysis on data from 3 different datasets of normalized counts data for RNA-seq experiment
So, I have limited knowledge of R but I need to do a PCA analysis of 3 different datasets of gene expression as a result of combined growth or mono-culture growth.
The 3 different datasets I performed ...
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Understanding the different designs in DESeq2
I am using DEseq2 and trying to understand the results obtained using different models.
I have a data design with 2 genotypes and 2 time points.
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DEseq2 contrast in two time points
I need help with some clarifications please
I have control versus treatment in two time points like
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Differential miRNA expression using RPM
I have microRNA (miRNA) expression data in RPM. I would like to do differential gene expression between two groups.
How can I do this?
I have considered edgeR and DESeq2 in R, but it looks like they ...
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Adjusted P-value from DESeq2
What does the padj really mean? I believe it's a BH method, where it attempts to quantify the likelihood of a "false positive" but I am not sure. Also, what does it mean if the resulting ...
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DESEQ2 Question about results()
I am currently learning to perform Differential Analysis via DESEQ2 R Package, and I believe I've made progress, able to format the data correctly [maybe] for DDS(). When I run the results function to ...
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Beginner with DESeq2 having issue with analysis
Hi there I am brand new to using RStudio and trying to run DESeq2 analysis on my featureCounts output counts table.
I ran the following code:
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DESeq2. Which is better: using the altHypothesis argument in the results function or manually filtering for your desired P-value and Log2FoldChange?
In DESeq2 you can identify your differentially expressed (DE) genes using the results function. I noticed people in my lab using the results() function with the minimum number of arguments supplied (...
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How does FDRtool work?
I have a question about using FDRtool. In the below code (on RNA seq data whose p values were acquired using Deseq2), the FDRtool was first used and thereafter p.adjust using the benjamini hochberg ...
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Calculating most abundant transcript from RNA-Seq data
vcf2maf uses VEP to annotate variants, and I believe selects the default Ensembl transcript to use for annotation. Sometimes the ...
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DESeq2 multiple treatments, multiple time points, multiple cell lines
Note: this question has also been asked on Bioconductor Support
I know there are a lot of questions asking similar things here on this forum and I checked the vingette and did a lot of other research ...
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Un-normalize DESeq2 counts
I obtained a matrix of RNA-seq count data that has been normalized by DESeq2's median of ratio method.
I know that DESeq2 wants to take in un-normalized counts, but I do not have access to those data.
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Bulk RNA-Seq Read Length Normalization across different samples
I have 20 samples out of which 14 are 100 bp in length and 6 are 150 bp. Is there a way to normalize the read length for cross-sample differential expression comparison? What would be the best way to ...
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Differential expression analysis for a subset of transcripts
I want to check the differential expression of a specific class of transcripts (say, long non-coding RNAs) using DESeq2. Now, I know that the normalization step takes into account the total number of ...
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Adding matrix as a confounder in EnrichmentBrowser
Brain data, particualrly human brain data have very heterogeneus cell types, so it's important to normalise by cell type/add proportoins of different cell types to the formula when performing ...
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the model matrix is not full rank : This is a classic question which a biologist face without clear understanding of the model design
Saw this answer biostar. Tried to make my metadata as such but still the
"Error in checkFullRank(modelMatrix) : "
This is my coldata
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What is a sensible number of gene/observations to explain PCA variance?
I am working with a set of RNASeq dataset. I have about 4000 observations (genes) on 20 samples and plotting a PCA I found the clustering doesn't vary much when I use different number of genes, but ...
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Question of Padj value (very high, infinite) got from dds
After I got dds from my count matrix by DESeq(), I use results() method to get Padj and log2 fold changes for volcano plotting,
then I found some gene's Padj values are infinite and the P-value is ...
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Why use "robust" FPKMs?
Both DESeq2 and edgeR have an FPKM/RPKM function that by default uses normalized library sizes ("robust" option in DESeq2). FPKMs have their own issues, but I thought the main benefit was to ...
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Is there an established method for comparing expression of groups of genes (gene sets)?
I have a figure in a paper where I show the log2(fold-change) (obtained with DESeq2) between two groups (based on genotype) for genes within a specific hallmark gene set, and a reviewer is asking ...
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Details of DESeq2 modeling a batch effect
When correcting my data for a batch effect using removeBatchEffect, some of the gene expression values become negative.
When searching for differentially expressed genes, I do not use the data above, ...
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Setting Contrast for DESeq2 results
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I am trying to recreate this heatmap. How would I compare the four variables: Ly49+/- and MOG/MOGSP to get a single heatmap? Thank you for helping me through ...
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the variation between treatments is less than the variation between replicates in RNA-seq data
I have a set of RNA-seq samples from targeting different proteins in a complex with siRNAs. However, the ...
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Within and between sample count normalization
recently I came across a situation where RNASeq sample quality was expresses trough DESeq sizeFactor. So authors reported quality of their samples with respect to some publicly available datasets as ...
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Differential Gene Expression with Replicates for some of the samples
[this question has also been posted on Biostars; some additional clarification from there has been copied into this question]
I've been asked to analyse a set of samples in which their control sample ...
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a proper Design Matrix for several drug treatments with both control negative and control positive
I have a dataset of RNA-seq samples for testing different drugs on the presence of another drug. One of my samples is the normal cells with no drugs (control negative) and another is the cells with ...
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RNAseq biological replicates not clustering in PCA plots
I have RNAseq data from 4 samples with 3 biological replicates per sample. I am currently trying to do the differential expression analysis with DESeq2 but the biological replicates will not cluster ...
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How to design DESeq2 LRT model with individuals nested in 2 levels?
We have a complicated experimental design that we would like to perform LRT analysis for. Our main goal is to discover significant genes for the "Injection:Social" interaction term across ...
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DESeqDataSetFromTximport all(lengths > 0) is not TRUE
I am suddenly running into an error when running the DESeqDataSetFromTximport
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Is it conflicting: significant difference according to Wald test but not in PERMANOVA and ANOSIM to compare species abundances of metagenomic samples?
If there is no significant difference between two groups of metagenomic samples according to "Multivariate differential abundance tests" for example PERMANOVA and ANOSIM, does it makes sense to use "...
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Ranking metric in GSEA
I am using fgsea in r to calculate and plot a bunch of GSEA graphs.
My question is whether it is acceptable to use the Wald statistic from DeSeq2 to rank the gene list?
I have seen in the GSEA ...
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How to incorportate RIN values as covariate in the design matrix?
I have been following the last DESeq2 pipeline to perform an RNAseq analysis with a dataset with low rin samples in the experimental (or treated) and high rin on the control ones.
I read a paper in ...
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Should biological replicates be the most similar pairs in an RNAseq experiment?
The attached figure (from deseq2) shows the sample to sample distances of a RNAseq experiment with 4 conditions (A,B,C,D) at 2 time points (0h,4h) with 2 biological replicates.
I am a little bit ...
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Identify differentially covered genes only between two samples
I have a question about finding differentially covered regions (coverage represents methylation level which goes from 0 to several thousands). I'm using enrichment based method which can be summarized ...
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vst() from DESeq2 vs voom() from limma
I have used both to transform my leukaemia RNA-Seq data for subsequent hierarchical clustering. The result is quite different. Some subtypes of leukaemia only form a cluster (or at least sit closer) ...
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DESeq2 compare within a condition
This might be a really stupid question, but I can't figure out how to do this. I've read through the DESeq2 vignette and manual pages but couldn't find an answer.
I have a bunch of samples split up ...
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Is there a computational tool or possibility to identify mRNA isoforms from the count matrix of a bulk RNA sequencing dataset?
I have the counts matrix of an RNA sequencing dataset of fibroblasts and I wish to identify isoforms of a particular gene of interest in it. Can anyone please hint me on a bioinformatics method to ...
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How do I differentiate outliers from in-group variations in a DESeq2 PCA plot of 9 samples distributed into 3 conditions?
I have a PCA plot from DESeq2's plotPCA(vsd, intgroup=c("conditions")) function. I have 9 samples distributed in to 3 groups of 3 biological replicates each. My ...
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How are these definitions related to differential expression?
I have two groups of patients; for each patient I have an output file (RNA-seq) contains this information
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STAR quantMode vs RSEM vs Kallisto
I recently discovered this Snakemake pipeline for RNASeq that uses STAR's quantMode to quantify gene expression for DESeq2 differential expression analysis.
In the past I've always seen the workflow ...
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RNASeq: Normalization, stabilization, gene length and rlog
I was thinking about the best method for normalization, which takes gene length into account (in order to compare genes)...
Do you think I can do that? :
- taking raw counts and dividing each gene by ...
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How I deal with this kind of gene expression comparision
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 tumor 1 in batch 1 and tumor 1 in batch 2 , ...
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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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Comparing RNA-Seq and Ribo-Seq
I'm attempting to compare total RNA-seq with Ribo-Seq, to determine if changes in Ribo-Seq are due to changes in transcriptional expression (akin to the analysis performed by Anota2Seq). I am, however,...
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Correlate DEGs from DESeq2, EdgeR and Limma results
I have a lists of DEGs identified by DESeq2, EdgeR and Limma.
I would like to correlate the the gene rankings in the lists to decide on a package to use in downstream analysis.
I am havig a few ...
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Single sample in group: normal pipeline or Kal's Z test
As stated, which one is better for differential expression analysis? When I say normal pipeline I mean limma-voom, edgeR and DESeq2 pipeline for standard analysis. Kal's z test is mentioned in this ...
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design formula question
I am not sure I am building the proper design formula for the question I want to answer
I have the following samples with three factors; clone, the structure and the condition.
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