Journal
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 20, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-019-2879-1
Keywords
Exploratory data analysis; Principal component analysis; RNA-Seq; Shiny; User-friendly; Reproducible research; R; Bioconductor
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF 01EO1003]
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BackgroundPrincipal component analysis (PCA) is frequently used in genomics applications for quality assessment and exploratory analysis in high-dimensional data, such as RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) gene expression assays. Despite the availability of many software packages developed for this purpose, an interactive and comprehensive interface for performing these operations is lacking.ResultsWe developed the pcaExplorer software package to enhance commonly performed analysis steps with an interactive and user-friendly application, which provides state saving as well as the automated creation of reproducible reports. pcaExplorer is implemented in R using the Shiny framework and exploits data structures from the open-source Bioconductor project. Users can easily generate a wide variety of publication-ready graphs, while assessing the expression data in the different modules available, including a general overview, dimension reduction on samples and genes, as well as functional interpretation of the principal components.ConclusionpcaExplorer is distributed as an R package in the Bioconductor project (http://bioconductor.org/packages/pcaExplorer/), and is designed to assist a broad range of researchers in the critical step of interactive data exploration.
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