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Paraskevas Iatropoulos
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Last seen 10.3 years ago
Hi!
it would be of great help, if someone could suggest a solution to the
following problem. I used edgeR to analyze RNA Seq expression data (3
different cell lineages with 2 biological replicates for each
lineage). I used the plotMDS () function to get a 2D plot of
multidimensional scaling. I was asked to perform a 3D plot but I am
not able to find a solution
According to Cell 151:559â575, where they report to perform 3D- MDS
, and a web guide (Quick-R) I used the cmdscale () function as
follows:
d <- dist( mydata ) # Calculate the euclidean distances between the
rows
fit <- cmdscale (d, eig =TRUE, k=3) # k is the number of dimensions
x <- fit$points[,1]
y <- fit$points[,2]
z <- fit$points[,3]
Then I use the scatterplot3D software to obtain the grafic in 2D or
3D.
However, the 2D plot obtained with cmdscale using the counts per
million ( cpm ) is much different compared to that obtained with
plotMDS . Moreover, the results with the above cmdscale procedure are
strange from a biological point of view, so I suppose that I did
something wrong. Since the dimensions in the edgeR graphic are
"leading logFC ", I calculated the log2 fold-chage (log2 [ cpm of the
replicate / average expression in all 6 samples]) and I get a 2D
graphic very similar but not identical to edgeR . In this way I can
also have a 3D plot.
I am not sure if it is right to use the log2-FC to get. Do you think
it is ok ? Is there a way to perform a 3D-MDS with edgeR ? Can you
suggest me a way to perform the 3D- MDS , please?
Thank you in advance.
Paraskevas
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Paraskevas Iatropoulos, MD
Geneticist
Clinical Research Centre for Rare Diseases âALDO E CELE DACCO â
IRCCS - Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Via G.B. Camozzi , 3
Ranica ( BG ) - Italy
e-mail: iatropoulos @ marionegri .it
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