bartongroup / RATS

Relative Abundance of Transcripts: An R package for the detection of Differential Transcript isoform Usage.
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Differentiate DTU from DGE? #48

Closed fruce-ki closed 6 years ago

fruce-ki commented 6 years ago

Often, high-ranking DTU hits are just gene switch on/off events, where the very few transcripts seen in one of the two conditions can create an artificially massive change in isoform proportions.

Set better noise criteria, or find a way to flag and discount gene on/off events and marginal above-noise cases. It is not RATs' intention to identify significant DGE in general, but when one of the conditions is very lowly expressed, it leads to results I do not find particularly convincing.