Emilia Baffo

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What does " RSEM (Batch normalized from Illumina HiSeq_RNASeqV2)" in cBioportal mean?

Hello! I'm new to bioinformatics and cancer databases. I was exploring cbioportal and analyzing coexpression of different genes through scatter plots. I noticed that the axis are labeled as " RSEM...

22 October 2020 7,403 2 View

What are the "units" in RNA seq data processed by RSEM?

Hello! I've been using gene expression data from the TCGA, where the RNAseq is processed using RSEM. I did a few graphs such as boxplots showing the expression of different genes in normal vs...

15 October 2020 2,825 2 View

Can Z-scores of two genes be used to do a correlation analysis?

I want to use data from TCGA available on cbioportal to perform some statistic analysis (e.g: correlation between mRNA of a certain gene and survival data, correlation between the mRNA levels of...

24 September 2020 1,255 4 View

The p53 protein z-score and p21 mRNA z-score from TCGA data don't show correlation between each other, why could this be?

I am currently using TCGA data available in cbioportal to perform analysis of different p53 targets. There's mRNA level data of all patients and all genes and about half of the patients have...

24 September 2020 1,393 3 View