Biology – Quantitative Biology – Genomics
Scientific paper
2008-06-19
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Genomics
16 pages, 5 figures. Implementations of both tests are available under the GNU General Public License at http://code.google.co
Scientific paper
Most of the statistical tests currently used to detect differentially expressed genes are based on asymptotic results, and perform poorly for low expression tags. Another problem is the common use of a single canonical cutoff for the significance level (p-value) of all the tags, without taking into consideration the type II error and the highly variable character of the sample size of the tags. This work reports the development of two significance tests for the comparison of digital expression profiles, based on frequentist and Bayesian points of view, respectively. Both tests are exact, and do not use any asymptotic considerations, thus producing more correct results for low frequency tags than the chi-square test. The frequentist test uses a tag-customized critical level which minimizes a linear combination of type I and type II errors. A comparison of the Bayesian and the frequentist tests revealed that they are linked by a Beta distribution function. These tests can be used alone or in conjunction, and represent an improvement over the currently available methods for comparing digital profiles.
Gruber Arthur
Pereira Carlos A. de B.
Varuzza Leonardo
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