Understanding sequencing data as compositions: an outlook and review.
Bioinformatics
; 34(16): 2870-2878, 2018 08 15.
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ABSTRACT
Motivation Although seldom acknowledged explicitly, count data generated by sequencing platforms exist as compositions for which the abundance of each component (e.g. gene or transcript) is only coherently interpretable relative to other components within that sample. This property arises from the assay technology itself, whereby the number of counts recorded for each sample is constrained by an arbitrary total sum (i.e. library size). Consequently, sequencing data, as compositional data, exist in a non-Euclidean space that, without normalization or transformation, renders invalid many conventional analyses, including distance measures, correlation coefficients and multivariate statistical models. Results:
The purpose of this review is to summarize the principles of compositional data analysis (CoDA), provide evidence for why sequencing data are compositional, discuss compositionally valid methods available for analyzing sequencing data, and highlight future directions with regard to this field of study. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Análise de Sequência
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
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Austrália