scaleInfReps: Scale inferential replicate counts

In fishpond: Fishpond: differential transcript and gene expression with inferential replicates

Description

A helper function to scale the inferential replicates to the mean sequencing depth. The scaling takes into account a robust estimator of size factor (median ratio method is used). First, counts are corrected per row using the effective lengths (for gene counts, the average transcript lengths), then scaled per column to the geometric mean sequence depth, and finally are adjusted per-column up or down by the median ratio size factor to minimize systematic differences across samples.

Usage

scaleInfReps(
  y,
  lengthCorrect = TRUE,
  meanDepth = NULL,
  sfFun = NULL,
  minCount = 10,
  minN = 3,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

y	a SummarizedExperiment with: infReps a list of inferential replicate count matrices, counts the estimated counts matrix, and length the effective lengths matrix
lengthCorrect	whether to use effective length correction (default is TRUE)
meanDepth	(optional) user can specify a different mean sequencing depth. By default the geometric mean sequencing depth is computed
sfFun	(optional) size factors function. An alternative to the median ratio can be provided here to adjust the scaledTPM so as to remove remaining library size differences. Alternatively, one can provide a numeric vector of size factors
minCount	for internal filtering, the minimum count
minN	for internal filtering, the minimum sample size at minCount
quiet	display no messages

Value

a SummarizedExperiment with the inferential replicates as scaledTPM with library size already corrected (no need for further normalization). A column log10mean is also added which is the log10 of the mean of scaled counts across all samples and all inferential replicates.

Examples

y <- makeSimSwishData()
y <- scaleInfReps(y)

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