Differential Expression Analysis in RNA-Seq by a Naive Bayes Classifier with Local Normalization

Authors

Yongchao Dou, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Xiaomei Guo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lingling Yuan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
David R. Holding, University of Nebraska, LincolnFollow
Chi Zhang, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2015

Citation

BioMed Research International Volume 2015, Article ID 789516, 9 pages

Comments

Copyright © 2015 Yongchao Dou et al.

Open access

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/789516

Abstract

To improve the applicability of RNA-seq technology, a large number of RNA-seq data analysis methods and correction algorithms have been developed. Although these new methods and algorithms have steadily improved transcriptome analysis, greater prediction accuracy is needed to better guide experimental designs with computational results. In this study, a new tool for the identification of differentially expressed genes with RNA-seq data, named GExposer, was developed. This tool introduces a local normalization algorithm to reduce the bias of nonrandomly positioned read depth. The naive Bayes classifier is employed to integrate fold change, transcript length, and GC content to identify differentially expressed genes. Results on several independent tests show that GExposer has better performance than other methods. The combination of the local normalization algorithm and naive Bayes classifier with three attributes can achieve better results; both false positive rates and false negative rates are reduced. However, only a small portion of genes is affected by the local normalization and GC content correction.