Motivation: RNA-Sequence or RNA-Seq experiments produce millions of discrete DNA
sequence reads, as a measure of gene expression levels. It enable researchers to investigate
complex aspects of the genomic studies. These include but not limited to identi cation of
di erentially expressed (DE) genes in two or more treatment conditions and detection of
novel transcripts. One of the common assumptions of RNA-Seq data is that, all gene counts
follow an overdispersed Poisson or negative binomial (NB) distribution which is sometimes
misleading because some genes may have stable transcription levels with no overdispersion.
Thus, a more realistic assumption in RNA-Seq data is to consider two sets of genes: overdispersed
and non-overdispersed.
Method: We propose a new two step integrated approach to detect di erentially expressed
(DE) genes in RNA-Seq data using standard Poisson model for non-overdispersed
genes and NB model for overdispersed genes. This is an integrated approach because this
method can be combined with any other NB based methods for detecting DE genes. Results: We evaluate the proposed approach using two simulated and two real RNA-Seq
data sets. We compare the performance of our proposed method combined with the four
popular R-software packages edgeR, DESeq, sSeq, and NBPSeq with their default settings.
For both the simulated and real data sets, integrated approaches perform better or at least
equally well compared to the regular methods embedded in these R-packages. / Access to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:123456789/198132 |
| Date | 03 May 2014 |
| Creators | Mahi, Naim Al |
| Contributors | Begum, Munni, 1970- |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
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