August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 19m
English
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Chapter 2. Quantile Normalization with NumPy and SciPy
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In this chapter, we will continue to analyze the gene expression data from Chapter 1, but with a slightly different purpose: we want to use each patient’s gene expression profile (the full vector of their gene expression measurements) to predict their expected survival. In order to use full profiles, we need a stronger normalization than what Chapter 1’s RPKM provides. We will instead perform quantile normalization, a technique that ensures measurements fit a specific distribution. This method enforces a strong assumption: if the data are not distributed according to a desired shape, we just make it fit! This might feel a bit like cheating, but it turns out to be simple and useful in many cases where the specific distribution doesn’t matter, but the relative changes of values within a population are important. For example, Bolstad and colleagues showed that it performs admirably in recovering known expression levels in microarray data.
Over the course of the chapter, we will reproduce a simplified version of Figures 5A and 5B from “Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma,” a paper from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project.
Our implementation of quantile normalization uses NumPy and SciPy effectively to produce a function that is fast, ...
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