GetDEResults: Obtain Differential Expression Analysis Results in a...

In wiscstatman/EBSeq: An R package for gene and isoform differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data

Obtain Differential Expression Analysis Results in a Two-condition Test

Description

Obtain DE analysis results in a two-condition test using the output of EBTest()

Usage

GetDEResults(EBPrelim, FDR=0.05, Method="robust",
				     FDRMethod="hard", Threshold_FC=0.7,
					   Threshold_FCRatio=0.3, SmallNum=0.01)

Arguments

EBPrelim	Output from the function EBTest().
FDR	Target FDR, defaut is 0.05.
FDRMethod	"hard" or "soft". Giving a target FDR alpha, either hard threshold and soft threshold may be used. If the hard threshold is preferred, DE transcripts are defined as the the transcripts with PP(DE) greater than (1-alpha). Using the hard threshold, any DE transcript in the list has FDR <= alpha. If the soft threshold is preferred, the DE transcripts are defined as the transcripts with PP(DE) greater than crit_fun(PPEE, alpha). Using the soft threshold, the list of DE transcripts has average FDR alpha. Based on results from our simulation studies, hard thresholds provide a better-controlled empirical FDR when sample size is relatively small(Less than 10 samples in each condition). User may consider the soft threshold when sample size is large to improve power.
Method	"robust" or "classic". Using the "robust" option, EBSeq is more robust to genes with outliers and genes with extremely small variances. Using the "classic" option, the results will be more comparable to those obtained by using the GetPPMat() function from earlier version (<= 1.7.0) of EBSeq. Default is "robust".
Threshold_FC	Threshold for the fold change (FC) statistics. The default is 0.7. The FC statistics are calculated as follows. First the posterior FC estimates are calculated using PostFC() function. The FC statistics is defined as exp(-|log posterior FC|) and therefore is always less than or equal to 1. The default threshold was selected as the optimal threshold learned from our simulation studies. By setting the threshold as 0.7, the expected FC for a DE transcript is less than 0.7 (or greater than 1/0.7=1.4). User may specify their own threshold here. A higher (less conservative) threshold may be used here when sample size is large. Our simulation results indicated that when there are more than or equal to 5 samples in each condition, a less conservative threshold will improve the power when the FDR is still well-controlled. The parameter will be ignored if Method is set as "classic".
Threshold_FCRatio	Threshold for the fold change ratio (FCRatio) statistics. The default is 0.3. The FCRatio statistics are calculated as follows. First we get another revised fold change statistic called Median-FC statistic for each transcript. For each transcript, we calculate the median of normalized expression values within each condition. The MedianFC is defined as exp(-|log((C1Median+SmallNum)/(C2Median+SmallNum))|). Note a small number is added to avoid Inf and NA. See SmallNum for more details. The FCRatio is calculated as exp(-|log(FCstatistics/MedianFC)|). Therefore it is always less than or equal to 1. The default threshold was selected as the optimal threshold learned from our simulation studies. By setting the threshold as 0.3, the FCRatio for a DE transcript is expected to be larger than 0.3.
SmallNum	When calculating the FCRatio (or Median-FC), a small number is added for each transcript in each condition to avoid Inf and NA. Default is 0.01.

Details

GetDEResults() function takes output from EBTest() function and output a list of DE transcripts under a target FDR. It also provides posterior probability estimates for each transcript.

Value

DEfound	A list of DE transcripts.
PPMat	Posterior probability matrix. Transcripts are following the same order as in the input matrix. Transcripts that were filtered by magnitude (in EBTest function), FC, or FCR are assigned with NA for both PPDE and PPEE.
Status	Each transcript will be assigned with one of the following values: "DE", "EE", "Filtered: Low Expression", "Filtered: Fold Change" and "Filtered: Fold Change Ratio". Transcripts are following the same order as in the input matrix.

Author(s)

Ning Leng, Yuan Li

References

Ning Leng, John A. Dawson, James A. Thomson, Victor Ruotti, Anna I. Rissman, Bart M.G. Smits, Jill D. Haag, Michael N. Gould, Ron M. Stewart, and Christina Kendziorski. EBSeq: An empirical Bayes hierarchical model for inference in RNA-seq experiments. Bioinformatics (2013)

See Also

EBTest

Examples

data(GeneMat)
str(GeneMat)
GeneMat.small = GeneMat[c(1:10,511:550),]
Sizes = MedianNorm(GeneMat.small)
EBOut = EBTest(Data = GeneMat.small,
	Conditions = as.factor(rep(c("C1","C2"), each = 5)),
	sizeFactors = Sizes, maxround = 5)
Out = GetDEResults(EBOut)

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