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TreeTerminus -creating transcript trees using inferential replicate counts.

Noor Pratap Singh¹, Michael I Love^2,3, Rob Patro¹

¹Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

|June 28, 2023

Summary

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Transcript abundance estimates have uncertainty, complicating analyses. TreeTerminus groups transcripts into a tree, reducing uncertainty at higher levels for flexible, improved data analysis.

Keywords:

Bioinformatics Data processing in systems biology Transcriptomics

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Transcriptomics

Background:

Transcript abundance estimation inherently involves uncertainty, challenging downstream analyses like differential expression testing.
Current gene-level analyses offer less ambiguity but lack the resolution needed for nuanced biological insights.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce TreeTerminus, a novel data-driven method for organizing transcript data.
To develop a hierarchical structure that mitigates inferential uncertainty in transcriptomic analyses.

Main Methods:

TreeTerminus constructs a tree where leaf nodes represent individual transcripts and internal nodes aggregate transcript sets.
The tree topology is optimized to progressively decrease inferential uncertainty from leaves to internal nodes.
The approach allows for flexible data analysis at various resolution levels within the hierarchy.

Main Results:

Evaluated on simulated and experimental datasets, TreeTerminus demonstrated superior performance compared to analyzing individual transcripts (leaves).
The method showed improved results across multiple evaluation metrics, outperforming existing approaches.
The hierarchical structure facilitated more robust and less ambiguous data interpretation.

Conclusions:

TreeTerminus offers a flexible and robust framework for transcriptomic data analysis, balancing resolution and uncertainty.
The method enhances the reliability of downstream analyses by providing a hierarchical view of transcript data.
This approach represents a significant advancement in analyzing complex transcriptomic datasets.