TCGABiolinks downloaded data do not match GDC portal data
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@mariozanfardino-15232
Last seen 4.4 years ago
Naples (Italy)

Hi,

i downloaded TCGA-OV data from TCGAbiolinks:

query <- GDCquery(project = c("TCGA-OV"), 
               data.category = "Transcriptome Profiling",
               legacy = FALSE,
               data.type = "Gene Expression Quantification",
               sample.type = "Solid Tissue Normal",
               workflow.type = "HTSeq - Counts")
GDCdownload(query)
gene_exp <- GDCprepare(query, summarizedExperiment = FALSE)

the result is:

Sorry! There is no result for your query. Please check in GDC the data available or if there is no error in your query.

But on GDC i see 71 solid tissue normal cases. Moreover, in other cases the number of samples do not match between TCGAbiolinks download and GDC cases.

Any suggenstions?

Thanks!

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Kevin Blighe ★ 4.0k
@kevin
Last seen 6 weeks ago
Republic of Ireland

From what I recall (from 2018), there are no HTSeq counts for normal samples in the TCGA-OV cohort. Where on GDC did you see these?

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You can see normal samples for HTSeq counts here:

71 normal tissue cases

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No, those are all tumour. On the original link that you posted, the normal samples in the list were from DNA sequencing, not RNA-sequencing.

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Can see here, too, on Xena:

The barcodes for HTSeq counts for TCGA-OV indicate that they are all primary tumour.

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Ok, therefore RNA-seq checkbox not works as a filter on GDC? if I select solid tissue normal the result refers to all normal tissue independently from data category or data type selected?

Thank you Kevin!

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