[Useq-users] TestDataset description

[Sergiusz W. <we...@gm...>]

Hello

I am currently working on a differential expression algorithm at Georgia
Health Sciences Univeristy (USA) and I desperately need to test it on some
benchmark dataset. I have found, that your project has such, but I have
some problems with using it - I was wondering if you could help me:

Is there any description available for the testDataset content available
at: http://bioserver.hci.utah.edu/TestDatasets/   besides the included pptx
file? What do particular columns represent in treatment and control files?

I was trying to figure out what filetype the replicates are, but could not
assign any. They look similar to SAM, but aren't, nor fasta/fastq nor
SRA/SRF files.

Do I understad correctly that they were generated by RNA-Seq Simulator?

Regards
Sergiusz Wesolowski

PS: I greatly appreciate your work! Your are the only project I have found
that made available some test dataset. I am surprised that so little
concern is put into benchmarking the RNA-Seq methods in general, which, I
thought, is the first thing you have to do when developing statistical
method.