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- Title
Accuracy of RNA-Seq and its dependence on sequencing depth.
- Authors
Guoshuai Cai; Hua Li; Yue Lu; Xuelin Huang; Juhee Lee; Müller, Peter; Yuan Ji; Shoudan Liang
- Abstract
Background: The cost of DNA sequencing has undergone a dramatical reduction in the past decade. As a result, sequencing technologies have been increasingly applied to genomic research. RNA-Seq is becoming a common technique for surveying gene expression based on DNA sequencing. As it is not clear how increased sequencing capacity has affected measurement accuracy of mRNA, we sought to investigate that relationship. Result: We empirically evaluate the accuracy of repeated gene expression measurements using RNA-Seq. We identify library preparation steps prior to DNA sequencing as the main source of error in this process. Studying three datasets, we show that the accuracy indeed improves with the sequencing depth. However, the rate of improvement as a function of sequence reads is generally slower than predicted by the binomial distribution. We therefore used the beta-binomial distribution to model the overdispersion. The overdispersion parameters we introduced depend explicitly on the number of reads so that the resulting statistical uncertainty is consistent with the empirical data that measurement accuracy increases with the sequencing depth. The overdispersion parameters were determined by maximizing the likelihood. We shown that our modified beta-binomial model had lower false discovery rate than the binomial or the pure beta-binomial models. Conclusion: We proposed a novel form of overdispersion guaranteeing that the accuracy improves with sequencing depth. We demonstrated that the new form provides a better fit to the data.
- Subjects
RNA synthesis; RNA analysis; MESSENGER RNA; GENE expression; GENETIC regulation; NUCLEOTIDE sequence
- Publication
BMC Bioinformatics, 2012, Vol 13, Issue Suppl 13, p1
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-13-S13-S5