PCA for RNA-Seq
Principal Component Analysis makes it possible to project a high-dimensional dataset (where the number of dimensions equals the number of genes or transcripts) onto two or three dimensions. This helps in identifying outlying samples for quality control, and gives a feeling for the principal causes of variation in a dataset. The analysis proceeds by transforming a large set of variables (in this case, the counts for each individual gene or transcript) to a smaller set of orthogonal principal components. The first principal component specifies the direction with the largest variability in the data, the second component is the direction with the second largest variation, and so on.
The PCA for RNA-Seq tool clusters samples in 2D or 3D. Known metadata about each sample is added as an overlay. To start the analysis:
Toolbox | RNA-Seq Analysis | PCA for RNA-Seq (
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Select a number of expression tracks (
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