inst/helpers/diffex.md

Differential expression

Differential expression can be used to identify genes which vary significantly between two populations of cells. Testing is executed via Seurat::FindMarkers and can be specified to use several methods including: 1. Student's t-test 2. Wilcoxon rank-sum test 3. Likelihood ratio test assuming an underlying negative binomial distribution 4. MAST: GLM-framework that treates cellular detection rate as a covariate (Finak et al, Genome Biology, 2015) (Installation instructions)

Comparison groups can be selected based on pre-computed cluster information or can be specified based on lasso-selection from a dimensionally reduced plot. Differential expression results for each method can be displayed in an associated table.



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