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This R Markdown aims to provide a brief summary of all diagnostic plots for your RNA-seq experiment. The fastq files are available for download upon request.

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sample tracking

Multiqc HTML

The multiqc html (separate file), summarises the alignment statistics along with the summary of raw counts generated via STAR;

The raw fastq reads were first processed with trim-galore (Barbraham Institute) package to:

  • Trim for low quality reads;
  • 2 color chemistry bias (next-seq);
  • Trim for noisy short fragments;
  • Trim for adapter sequence;
trim_galore --nextseq 20 --gzip --length 50 --paired --fastqc

The filtered reads were then aligned to GRCh38 reference genome with ENSEMBL annotations;

* --paired only applicable for paired-end data; --length 10 for smRNA-seq libraries

geneBodyCoverage

A good library should indicate little to no bias across the entire gene body.

countsDistribution

Post-normalization, the medians should be consistent across samples and more similar between biological replicates.

sampleCluster

An euclidean distance is computed between samples, and the dendrogram is built upon the Ward criterion. We expect this dendrogram to group replicates and separate biological conditions.

principalComponents

Another way of visualizing the experiment variability is to look at the first principal components of the PCA. On this figure, the first principal component (PC1) is expected to separate samples from the different biological conditions, meaning that the biological variability is the main source of variance in the data.

MA-Plot

The above figure represents the MA-plot of the data for the comparisons done, where differentially expressed features are highlighted in red. A MA-plot represents the log ratio of differential expression as a function of the mean intensity for each feature. Triangles correspond to features having a too low/high log2(FC) to be displayed on the plot.

citations

citation("DESeq2")
## 
##   Love, M.I., Huber, W., Anders, S. Moderated estimation of fold change
##   and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2 Genome Biology 15(12):550
##   (2014)
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Article{,
##     title = {Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2},
##     author = {Michael I. Love and Wolfgang Huber and Simon Anders},
##     year = {2014},
##     journal = {Genome Biology},
##     doi = {10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8},
##     volume = {15},
##     issue = {12},
##     pages = {550},
##   }
citation("SARTools")
## 
##   Hugo Varet, Loraine Brillet-Guéguen, Jean-Yves Coppée and
##   Marie-Agnès Dillies (2016): SARTools: A DESeq2- and EdgeR-Based R
##   Pipeline for Comprehensive Differential Analysis of RNA-Seq Data.
##   PLoS One, 2016, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157022
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Article{,
##     title = {SARTools: A DESeq2- and EdgeR-Based R Pipeline for Comprehensive Differential Analysis of RNA-Seq Data},
##     author = {Hugo Varet and Loraine Brillet-Guéguen and Jean-Yves Coppée and Marie-Agnès Dillies},
##     year = {2016},
##     journal = {PLoS One},
##     doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0157022},
##     url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157022},
##   }