Method
A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data
1 Bioinformatics Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville 3052, Australia
2 Epigenetics Laboratory, Cancer Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Genome Biology 2010, 11:R25 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-r25
Published: 2 March 2010Abstract
The fine detail provided by sequencing-based transcriptome surveys suggests that RNA-seq is likely to become the platform of choice for interrogating steady state RNA. In order to discover biologically important changes in expression, we show that normalization continues to be an essential step in the analysis. We outline a simple and effective method for performing normalization and show dramatically improved results for inferring differential expression in simulated and publicly available data sets.
