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deltaCq error in package NormqPCR

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jacorvar ▴ 40

@jacorvar-8972

Last seen 2.0 years ago

European Union

Hi,

I get the following error when I type deltaCq(data, "hsa-miR-875-3p-002204"):

Error in .local(qPCRBatch, ...) : 
  given housekeeping gene, hsa.miR.875.3p.002204 not found in file. Ensure entered housekeeping genes appear in the file

However, when I do "hsa-miR-875-3p-002204" %in% featureNames(data), I get TRUE.

Could you help me to solve it?

normqpcr deltaCq qrt-pcr • 1.7k views

ADD COMMENT • link 9.7 years ago jacorvar ▴ 40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-19

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James W. MacDonald 68k

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Last seen 13 hours ago

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This is an infelicity in the NormqPCR package. Internally it calls make.names on the housekeeping gene name:

> make.names("hsa-miR-875-3p-002204")
[1] "hsa.miR.875.3p.002204"

And you will note that hsa.miR.875.3p.00204 is not the same as hsa-miR-875-3p-002204, hence the error. You could get around this by running make.names on all your featureNames first.

featureNames(data) <- make.names(featureNames(data))

ADD COMMENT • link 9.7 years ago James W. MacDonald 68k

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It gives me an error:

featureNames(data) <- make.names(rownames(featureData(data)))
Error in `featureNames<-`(`*tmp*`, value = character(0)) : 
  'value' length (0) must equal feature number in AssayData (384)

ADD REPLY • link 9.7 years ago jacorvar ▴ 40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22

Thanks for the hint. I tried it and didn't work, since it was unable to change the feature names. Then I did the following and it worked:

fData = data.frame(row.names=paste(1:length(featureNames(data)), make.names(featureNames(data)), sep="."))

featureData(data) = new("AnnotatedDataFrame", data=fData)

featureNames(data) = rownames(featureData(data))