MEB

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.MEB    

This package is for version 3.10 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see MEB.

A Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) method to detect differential expression genes for RNA-seq data

Bioconductor version: 3.10

Identifying differential expression genes between the same or different species is an urgent demand for biological research. In most of cases, normalization is the first step to solve this problem, then by employing the hypothesis testing, we could detect statistically significant genes. With the development of machine learning, it gives us a new perspective on discrimination between differential expression (DE) and non-differential expression (non-DE) genes. Provided a set of training data, the procedure of distinguishing genes could be simplified as a classification problem. However, in reality, it is hard for us to get the information from both DE and non-DE genes. To solve this problem, we try to identify differential cases only in the domain of non-DE genes, and transform the problem to an outlier detection in machine learning. Given that non-DE genes have some similarities in features, we build a Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) to cover those non-DE genes in feature space, then those DE genes, which are enormously different from non-DE genes, being regarded as outliers and rejected outside the ball. Compared with existing methods, it is no need for the MEB method to normalize data in advance. Besides, the MEB method could be easily applied to the same or different species data and without changing too much.

Author: Yan Zhou, Jiadi Zhu

Maintainer: Jiadi Zhu <2160090406 at email.szu.edu.cn>, Yan Zhou <zhouy1016 at szu.edu.cn>

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "3.6") and enter:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("MEB")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("MEB")

 

HTML	R Script	MEB Tutorial
PDF		Reference Manual
Text		NEWS

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biocViews	Classification, DifferentialExpression, GeneExpression, Normalization, Software
Version	1.0.0
In Bioconductor since	BioC 3.10 (R-3.6) (< 6 months)
License	GPL-2
Depends	R (>= 3.6.0)
Imports	e1071, SummarizedExperiment
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Source Package	MEB_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary	MEB_1.0.0.zip
Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)	MEB_1.0.0.tgz
Source Repository	git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/MEB
Source Repository (Developer Access)	git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/MEB
Package Short Url	https://bioconductor.org/packages/MEB/
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