A note on exact differences between beta distributions in genomic (Methylation) studies.

oleh: Emanuele Raineri, Marc Dabad, Simon Heath

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01

Deskripsi

We apply a known algorithm for computing exactly inequalities between Beta distributions to assess whether a given position in a genome is differentially methylated across samples. We discuss the advantages brought by the adoption of this solution with respect to two approximations (Fisher's test and Z score). The same formalism presented here can be applied in a similar way to variant calling.