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  • What is the cuffdiff output really telling you? (x-post from bioinformatics)

    I've got two different cellular fractions and I'm looking for genes that are alternatively spliced, alternatively polyadenylated, differentially expressed, etc. I'm running cufflinks/cuffdiff in galaxy and I'm trying to grok what the different tests are doing.

    Cuffdiff outputs 11 files (four FPKM tracking files, 7 files of results). Omitting the four FPKM tracking files, here are the 7 results files with a snippet from the the cuffdiff documentation:

    1. Differential expression testing for transcripts: FPKM of one group vs FPKM of the other.
    2. Differential expression testing for genes: This sums the FPKM for transcripts sharing the same gene_id.
    3. Differential expression testing for coding sequence (CDS): This sums the FPKM of transcripts sharing a common p_id, which is the id of the coding sequence that this transcript contains.
    4. Differential expression testing for primary transcripts: This sums FPKM of transcripts sharing a common tss_id (transcription start site).
    5. Differential splicing tests: For each primary transcript, this tests the amount of overloading detected among isoforms, i.e. how much differential splicing exists between isoforms processed from a single primary transcript.
    6. Differential coding output: For each gene, this tests the amount of overloading detected among its coding sequences, i.e. how much differential CDS output exists between samples.
    7. Differential promoter use: For each gene, the amount of overloading detected among its primary transcripts, i.e. how much differential promoter use exists between samples.

    My questions are:

    1. How are tests for differential splicing (#5) different from tests for differential coding output (#6)?
    2. How are the tests for differential gene expression summing over gene ids (#2) different that tests for gene expression summing over CDS ids (#3)?
    3. Tests #5-7 above are testing something fundamentally different than the tests for differential gene expression (tests #1-4). I'd like a good explanation of how these groups of tests differ. E.g. how does #3 (differential expression over CDS) differ from #6 (differential coding output).

    Thanks very much in advance.

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