[HTML][HTML] ROTS: An R package for reproducibility-optimized statistical testing

T Suomi, F Seyednasrollah, MK Jaakkola… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
PLoS computational biology, 2017journals.plos.org
Differential expression analysis is one of the most common types of analyses performed on
various biological data (eg RNA-seq or mass spectrometry proteomics). It is the process that
detects features, such as genes or proteins, showing statistically significant differences
between the sample groups under comparison. A major challenge in the analysis is the
choice of an appropriate test statistic, as different statistics have been shown to perform well
in different datasets. To this end, the reproducibility-optimized test statistic (ROTS) adjusts a …
Differential expression analysis is one of the most common types of analyses performed on various biological data (e.g. RNA-seq or mass spectrometry proteomics). It is the process that detects features, such as genes or proteins, showing statistically significant differences between the sample groups under comparison. A major challenge in the analysis is the choice of an appropriate test statistic, as different statistics have been shown to perform well in different datasets. To this end, the reproducibility-optimized test statistic (ROTS) adjusts a modified t-statistic according to the inherent properties of the data and provides a ranking of the features based on their statistical evidence for differential expression between two groups. ROTS has already been successfully applied in a range of different studies from transcriptomics to proteomics, showing competitive performance against other state-of-the-art methods. To promote its widespread use, we introduce here a Bioconductor R package for performing ROTS analysis conveniently on different types of omics data. To illustrate the benefits of ROTS in various applications, we present three case studies, involving proteomics and RNA-seq data from public repositories, including both bulk and single cell data. The package is freely available from Bioconductor (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/ROTS).
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