[Useq-users] Question for USeq RNA-seq Analysis Output

[Jeff A. <jef...@gm...>]

Hello,

I've performed some analysis of RNA-seq data using USeq and I am a bit confused about the output file all.xls.  Can someone tell me what it means if a gene has only gene identifiers and genomic location information but no expression data?  I have assumed that this meant that there were no reads found for this gene in any of the compared datasets.  However, I've recently realized that some of these genes should have reads that map to their coding regions.  For instance, in this experiment I have three conditions that were each compared for differential gene expression.  In some cases, the comparison between Samples 1 and 2 show measured reads in both conditions for a given gene, but comparing Samples 2 and 3 lists this gene as blank.  Any insights would be greatly appreciated.  I've attached an example image of this output, showing genes with no RNA-seq information.

Thank you!

Jeff

Jeffrey Alexander
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