RnaSeqTutorial-volcanoPlot: Volcano plot

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

Description

Draws a Volcano plot, i.e. the differential expression log odds vs. expression log fold change between condition.

Usage

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volcanoPlot(object, alpha = 0.01, log2FC = 0.5)

Arguments

object

an object of class DataFrame having at least 2 columns named log2FoldChange and padj

alpha

the significance cutoff to be used when plotting, defaults to 10e-2.

log2FC

the log2 fold change used for plotting, defaults to 0.5

Details

The function has been devised to draw a Volcano plot from a DESeq result object. The cutoffs have been devised from Schurch et al., RNA, 2016

See Also

DESeq package

Examples

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## Not run: 
## TODO add an object after putting results in the data folder
## and use that for plotting the example
data(RST-DataFrame)
volcanoPlot(dataFrame)

## End(Not run)

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