NDLI: Benchmarking differential expression analysis tools for RNA-Seq: normalization-based vs. log-ratio transformation-based methods

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Author	Quinn, Thomas P. Crowley, Tamsyn M. Richardson, Mark F.
Abstract	Background Count data generated by next-generation sequencing assays do not measure absolute transcript abundances. Instead, the data are constrained to an arbitrary “library size” by the sequencing depth of the assay, and typically must be normalized prior to statistical analysis. The constrained nature of these data means one could alternatively use a log-ratio transformation in lieu of normalization, as often done when testing for differential abundance (DA) of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in 16S rRNA data. Therefore, we benchmark how well the ALDEx2 package, a transformation-based DA tool, detects differential expression in high-throughput RNA-sequencing data (RNA-Seq), compared to conventional RNA-Seq methods such as edgeR and DESeq2. Results To evaluate the performance of log-ratio transformation-based tools, we apply the ALDEx2 package to two simulated, and two real, RNA-Seq data sets. One of the latter was previously used to benchmark dozens of conventional RNA-Seq differential expression methods, enabling us to directly compare transformation-based approaches. We show that ALDEx2, widely used in meta-genomics research, identifies differentially expressed genes (and transcripts) from RNA-Seq data with high precision and, given sufficient sample sizes, high recall too (regardless of the alignment and quantification procedure used). Although we show that the choice in log-ratio transformation can affect performance, ALDEx2 has high precision (i.e., few false positives) across all transformations. Finally, we present a novel, iterative log-ratio transformation (now implemented in ALDEx2) that further improves performance in simulations. Conclusions Our results suggest that log-ratio transformation-based methods can work to measure differential expression from RNA-Seq data, provided that certain assumptions are met. Moreover, these methods have very high precision (i.e., few false positives) in simulations and perform well on real data too. With previously demonstrated applicability to 16S rRNA data, ALDEx2 can thus serve as a single tool for data from multiple sequencing modalities.
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ISSN	14712105
DOI	10.1186/s12859-018-2261-8
Journal	BMC Bioinformatics
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	19
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2018-07-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Bioinformatics Microarrays Computational Biology Computer Appl. in Life Sciences Algorithms High-throughput sequencing analysis RNA-Seq Compositional data Compositional analysis CoDA Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
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Subject	Molecular Biology Biochemistry Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics Structural Biology
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5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.6/2023

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