GSEA questions# Biology - 生物学
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1. The default “Metric for ranking genes” is “Signal2Noise”. I ran
GSEA, and used this option, and got good results. But when I go through the
manual, I found this note “The default metric for ranking genes is the
signal-to-noise ratio. To use this metric, your phenotype file must define
at least two categorical phenotypes and your expression dataset must contain
at least three (3) samples for each phenotype. If you are using a
continuous phenotype or your expression dataset contains fewer than three
samples per phenotype, you must choose a different ranking metric.” For NGS
data, we usually have two replicates, which means we cannot use Signal to
noise as metric for ranking genes. Is that true for real practice?
2. Is it better to use whole transcriptome or filtered gene list (based
on p value cutoff) as input?
GSEA, and used this option, and got good results. But when I go through the
manual, I found this note “The default metric for ranking genes is the
signal-to-noise ratio. To use this metric, your phenotype file must define
at least two categorical phenotypes and your expression dataset must contain
at least three (3) samples for each phenotype. If you are using a
continuous phenotype or your expression dataset contains fewer than three
samples per phenotype, you must choose a different ranking metric.” For NGS
data, we usually have two replicates, which means we cannot use Signal to
noise as metric for ranking genes. Is that true for real practice?
2. Is it better to use whole transcriptome or filtered gene list (based
on p value cutoff) as input?