Method
Gene ontology analysis for RNA-seq: accounting for selection bias
Author affiliations
Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville 3052, Australia
Citation and License
Genome Biology 2010, 11:R14 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-r14
Published: 4 February 2010Abstract
We present GOseq, an application for performing Gene Ontology (GO) analysis on RNA-seq data. GO analysis is widely used to reduce complexity and highlight biological processes in genome-wide expression studies, but standard methods give biased results on RNA-seq data due to over-detection of differential expression for long and highly expressed transcripts. Application of GOseq to a prostate cancer data set shows that GOseq dramatically changes the results, highlighting categories more consistent with the known biology.
