What does the relative-log expression normalization mean in the deseq2 wrapper function ?
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Last seen 6.0 years ago

Good morning,

I am trying to understand the relative log expression normalizat

ion made by the DESEQ2 wrapper function.

As far as I understood, It corresponds to the computing of scaling factor as described by Anders and Hubers (https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2010-11-10-r106):

"Hence, to estimate the size factors, we take the median of the ratios of observed counts. Generalizing the procedure just outlined to the case of more than two samples, we use:

sˆj=medianikij(∏mv=1kiv)1/m.

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The denominator of this expression can be interpreted as a pseudo-reference sample obtained by taking the geometric mean across samples. Thus, each size factor estimate sˆj is computed as the median of the ratios of the j-th sample's counts to those of the pseudo-reference."

 

But there is non log transformation in that formula so I'm not sure it is the right description of the RLE normalization method.

 

Thank you for your answers

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@mikelove
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RLE is not terminology created by the DESeq/DESeq2 team.  All you need to know is that   both of these methods use the same normalization and the formula is given in both publications.

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