DaMiRseq

DaMiRseq performs biomarker discovery and classification from RNA-Seq transcriptome data by enabling differential expression analysis and feature selection for high-throughput transcriptomic studies.


Key Features:

  • High-dimensional data handling: Processes high-dimensional RNA-Seq transcriptome data to support downstream analyses.
  • Noise and bias removal: Systematically removes technical noise and bias from RNA-Seq counts during preprocessing.
  • Feature selection: Identifies the most informative features (genes/transcripts) for biomarker discovery.
  • Differential expression analysis: Performs differential expression analysis to detect differentially expressed genes or transcripts.
  • Classification: Implements classification algorithms to categorize samples into binary and multi-class groups based on selected features.

Scientific Applications:

  • Transcriptional biomarker discovery: Identification of gene- or transcript-level biomarkers from RNA-Seq data for diagnostic or prognostic studies.
  • Class comparison and profiling: Comparative analysis of gene expression across conditions or disease states using differential expression and classification.

Methodology:

Data preprocessing to remove noise and bias; feature selection to identify informative genes/transcripts; and classification using algorithms for binary or multi-class sample categorization.

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License:
GPL-2.0
Tool Type:
library
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
R
Added:
6/26/2018
Last Updated:
11/25/2024

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Chiesa M, Colombo GI, Piacentini L. DaMiRseq—an R/Bioconductor package for data mining of RNA-Seq data: normalization, feature selection and classification. Bioinformatics. 2017;34(8):1416-1418. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx795. PMID:29236969.

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