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Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

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Anders, Simon, Huber, Wolfgang·2010·Genome Biology

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High-throughput sequencing assays such as RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq or barcode counting provide quantitative readouts in the form of count data. To infer differential signal in such data correctly and with good statistical power, estimation of data variability throughout the dynamic range and a suitable error model are required. We propose a method based on the negative binomial distribution, with variance and mean linked by local regression and present an implementation, DESeq, as an R/Bioconductor package.

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  • Regularization by combining information across similar genes is commonly applied in learning error models for bulk RNA-seq in differential expression analysis, but has not been previously applied in this context for single-cell normalization.

    “This approach is commonly applied in learning error models for bulk RNA-seq in the context of differential expression analysis [22–25], but to our knowledge has not been previously applied in this context for single-cell normalization.”
  • DESeq uses the negative binomial distribution for read count data and links variance and mean by local regression.

    “For example, DESeq [23] uses the negative binomial distribution for read count data and links variance and mean by local regression.”
  • Differentially regulated H3K27ac or STAT3 sites were identified from three (H3K27ac) or two (STAT3) biological replicates using DESeq.

    “Differentially regulated H3K27ac or STAT3 sites were identified from three (H3K27ac) or two (STAT3) biological replicates using DESeq65 in the default parameters through HOMER66 (http://homer.salk.edu/homer/).”
  • The capability to demultiplex and identify doublets using natural genetic variation reduces per-sample and per-cell library preparation cost, does not require synthetic barcodes or split-pool strategies, and captures biological variability among individual samples while limiting unwanted technical variability.

    “The capability to demultiplex and identify doublets using natural genetic variation reduces the per-sample and per-cell library preparation cost of single-cell RNA-sequencing, does not require synthetic barcodes or split-pool strategies36–40, and captures biological variability among individual samples while limiting unwanted technical variability.”

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  • Normalization methods TMM, DESeq, PoissonSeq, and UpperQuartile take heterogeneous transcript distributions into account by ignoring highly variable and/or highly expressed features.

    “Normalization methods that take this into account are TMM [47], DESeq [48], PoissonSeq [49] and UpperQuartile [45], which ignore highly variable and/or highly expressed features.”

    From A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

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Authors
Anders, S., & Huber, W.
Affiliations
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
Corresponding author
Anders, Simon
Venue
Genome Biology
Published
2010-10
Volume
11
Issue
10
Pages
R106-R106
ISSN
  • 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-760X
OpenAlex
W2152239989
Cited by
15,581
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 444 · 2025: 728 · 2024: 1002 · 2023: 1038 · 2022: 1340 · 2021: 1537 · 2020: 1423 · 2019: 1308 · 2018: 1235 · 2017: 1294 · 2016: 1122 · 2015: 1103 · 2014: 982 · 2013: 604 · 2012: 296
FWCI
131.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Genome biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
European Commission
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Keywords
differential gene expression, count data, negative binomial distribution, local regression, variance estimation, error model, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, DESeq, statistical power
MeSH terms
Animals, Drosophila, Models, Genetic, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Stem Cells, Binomial Distribution, Linear Models, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, Tissue Culture Techniques, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing

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