JY-Zhou / FreePSI

An alignment-free approach to estimating exon-inclusion ratios without a reference transcriptome
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interpretation of PSI values #11

Open sarangbg opened 1 year ago

sarangbg commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the useful FreePSI tool to calcaulate PSI value! I have some questions, they might have been covered in the publication or previous issues (exon bed file #7), but it would be great if you reply again here:

  1. Can it have multiple rows for a gene corresponding to separate transcript id or is it compulsory to have only one row per gene?
  2. Can it have overlapping exons from multiple transcripts or do we need to merge them?
  3. Does it make sense to use FreePSI for calculating PSI value of a partial exon instead of the full exon? For example, instead of including coordinates of a full exon from transcriptome annotation, can we include regions within the exon to compare psi values of the start of the exon vs the end of the exon?

I appreciate your time!

Best, Sarang