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Evaluation of critical data processing steps for reliable prediction of gene co-expression from large collections of RNA-seq data.


ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Gene co-expression analysis is an attractive tool for leveraging enormous amounts of public RNA-seq datasets for the prediction of gene functions and regulatory mechanisms. However, the optimal data processing steps for the accurate prediction of gene co-expression from such large datasets remain unclear. Especially the importance of batch effect correction is understudied.

Results

We processed RNA-seq data of 68 human and 76 mouse cell types and tissues using 50 different workflows into 7,200 genome-wide gene co-expression networks. We then conducted a systematic analysis of the factors that result in high-quality co-expression predictions, focusing on normalization, batch effect correction, and measure of correlation. We confirmed the key importance of high sample counts for high-quality predictions. However, choosing a suitable normalization approach and applying batch effect correction can further improve the quality of co-expression estimates, equivalent to a >80% and >40% increase in samples. In larger datasets, batch effect removal was equivalent to a more than doubling of the sample size. Finally, Pearson correlation appears more suitable than Spearman correlation, except for smaller datasets.

Conclusion

A key point for accurate prediction of gene co-expression is the collection of many samples. However, paying attention to data normalization, batch effects, and the measure of correlation can significantly improve the quality of co-expression estimates.

SUBMITTER: Vandenbon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8797241 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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