PMID- 21863128 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20111110 LR - 20240323 IS - 1176-9351 (Electronic) IS - 1176-9351 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2011 TI - On differential gene expression using RNA-Seq data. PG - 205-15 LID - 10.4137/CIN.S7473 [doi] AB - MOTIVATION: RNA-Seq is a novel technology that provides read counts of RNA fragments in each gene, including the mapped positions of each read within each gene. Besides many other applications it can be used to detect differentially expressed genes. Most published methods collapse the position-level read data into a single gene-specific expression measurement. Statistical inference proceeds by modeling these gene-level expression measurements. RESULTS: We present a Bayesian method of calling differential expression (BM-DE) that directly models the position-level read counts. We demonstrate the potential advantage of the BM-DE method compared to existing approaches that rely on gene-level aggregate data. An important additional feature of the proposed approach is that BM-DE can be used to analyze RNA-Seq data from experiments without biological replicates. This becomes possible since the approach works with multiple position-level read counts for each gene. We demonstrate the importance of modeling for position-level read counts with a yeast data set and a simulation study. AVAILABILITY: A public domain R package is available from http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/~ylji/BMDE/. FAU - Lee, Juhee AU - Lee J AD - Department of Biostatistics, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, USA. FAU - Ji, Yuan AU - Ji Y FAU - Liang, Shoudan AU - Liang S FAU - Cai, Guoshuai AU - Cai G FAU - Muller, Peter AU - Muller P LA - eng GR - K25 CA123344/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA132897/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110801 PL - United States TA - Cancer Inform JT - Cancer informatics JID - 101258149 PMC - PMC3153162 OTO - NOTNLM OT - clustering OT - false discovery rate OT - mixture models OT - next-generation sequencing EDAT- 2011/08/25 06:00 MHDA- 2011/08/25 06:01 PMCR- 2011/08/01 CRDT- 2011/08/25 06:00 PHST- 2011/08/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/08/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/08/25 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2011/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - cin-10-2011-205 [pii] AID - 10.4137/CIN.S7473 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Inform. 2011;10:205-15. doi: 10.4137/CIN.S7473. Epub 2011 Aug 1.