27 Oct 2016 09:30am to 10:30am

Harnessing Crowd-Sourcing to Select Genes based on Effect Size Using Visual Inference Methods

Seminar
Event Location
Australia
Speakers
Di Cook

PLEASE NOTE:  This is very preliminary work, and unpublished as of yet. 

The volume of high-throughput data makes it a daunting prospect to plot, but relying primarily on false discovery rate adjusted p-values is not enough. Making plots of the data is essential to diagnose the models and understand the results. New work on inference for statistical graphics is used to examine high-throughput data. Initial validation experiments suggest that the results obtained reflect the strength of the effect size or signal in the data better than conventional p-values can capture. This has the potential to solve inconsistencies in results from different analysis methods and between choices made on the basis of fold change versus p-value.  Crowd-sourcing is done using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and data is drawn from RNA-Seq experiments on soybean plants.