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Comprehensive evaluation of RNA-seq quantification methods for linearity

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, March 2017
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Title
Comprehensive evaluation of RNA-seq quantification methods for linearity
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BMC Bioinformatics, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12859-017-1526-y
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Haijing Jin, Ying-Wooi Wan, Zhandong Liu

Abstract

Deconvolution is a mathematical process of resolving an observed function into its constituent elements. In the field of biomedical research, deconvolution analysis is applied to obtain single cell-type or tissue specific signatures from a mixed signal and most of them follow the linearity assumption. Although recent development of next generation sequencing technology suggests RNA-seq as a fast and accurate method for obtaining transcriptomic profiles, few studies have been conducted to investigate best RNA-seq quantification methods that yield the optimum linear space for deconvolution analysis. Using a benchmark RNA-seq dataset, we investigated the linearity of abundance estimated from seven most popular RNA-seq quantification methods both at the gene and isoform levels. Linearity is evaluated through parameter estimation, concordance analysis and residual analysis based on a multiple linear regression model. Results show that count data gives poor parameter estimations, large intercepts and high inter-sample variability; while TPM value from Kallisto and Salmon shows high linearity in all analyses. Salmon and Kallisto TPM data gives the best fit to the linear model studied. This suggests that TPM values estimated from Salmon and Kallisto are the ideal RNA-seq measurements for deconvolution studies.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 177 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 23%
Researcher 40 22%
Student > Master 26 14%
Student > Bachelor 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Other 23 13%
Unknown 25 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 58 32%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 28%
Computer Science 13 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Mathematics 7 4%
Other 16 9%
Unknown 28 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 02 August 2017.
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