ziyili20 / TOAST

Tools for the analysis of heterogeneous tissues
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Minimum number of RNAseq samples #11

Open astrid12345 opened 3 years ago

astrid12345 commented 3 years ago

Hi ziyili20,

for estimating disease effect in one celltype (as in your vignette section 5.1.1) , what is the minimum number of RNAseq samples required? RNA sequencing 100 bulk samples is not impossible, but quite demanding in practice.

I understand from the vignette that the design matrix for 6 celltypes has 12 coefficients. Could you kindly share your thoughts on the minimum number of samples to estimate disease effects for e.g. 4 different celltypes?

Many thanks, Astrid