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Controlling taxa abundance improves metatranscriptomics differential analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, March 2023
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Title
Controlling taxa abundance improves metatranscriptomics differential analysis
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BMC Microbiology, March 2023
DOI 10.1186/s12866-023-02799-9
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Authors

Zhicheng Ji, Li Ma

Abstract

A common task in analyzing metatranscriptomics data is to identify microbial metabolic pathways with differential RNA abundances across multiple sample groups. With information from paired metagenomics data, some differential methods control for either DNA or taxa abundances to address their strong correlation with RNA abundance. However, it remains unknown if both factors need to be controlled for simultaneously. We discovered that when either DNA or taxa abundance is controlled for, RNA abundance still has a strong partial correlation with the other factor. In both simulation studies and a real data analysis, we demonstrated that controlling for both DNA and taxa abundances leads to superior performance compared to only controlling for one factor. To fully address the confounding effects in analyzing metatranscriptomics data, both DNA and taxa abundances need to be controlled for in the differential analysis.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 25%
Researcher 2 25%
Professor 1 13%
Unspecified 1 13%
Student > Master 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 25%
Unspecified 1 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 13%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 13%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 March 2023.
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#14,393,608
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#1,372
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#147,696
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#14
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