Is it possible to get a function which gives the name of the gene used to normalize?
hi,
Take a look at the original DESeq paper. DESeq2 uses the median ratio method described here for normalization. The default normalization is the estimation of size factors presented in Equation 5. The default size factor estimate uses all of the genes that have positive counts for all samples.
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2010-11-10-r106
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Hi Michael,
thank you for the fast reply. I now the method, but my point is, if I take the median of ratios to the geometric mean, then there is in fact for each sample one gene I normalize to (or two genes, if the total number of genes is even). This information could be really helpful for explaining biologists what happened to their data...