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Quantile normalization and Deseq2

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lirongrossmann ▴ 80

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Hi all,

I am using variance stabilizing transformation on my rna seq count data with Deseq2.

Do I need to use quantile normalize the samples or does variance stabilizing transformation function take care of it?

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Thanks, I just wanted to make sure that genes that have "low" counts in two samples are comparable (i.e. have similar rank for example).

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Yes, the counts are comparable after normalization and transformation.

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Michael Love 43k

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What would be the reason for quantile normalization, beyond the sequencing depth normalization we already implement?

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