Skip to main content

Table 5 The effect of quality score modeling on quantification accuracy

From: RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

Simulation model

Estimation model

MPE

10% EF

FP

theoretical

quality

3.1/4.1/7.2

13.8/25.2/43.5

1.0/1.8/11.6

theoretical

profile

3.1/4.1/7.2

13.9/25.3/43.6

1.0/1.8/11.7

empirical

quality

3.1/4.0/7.0

14.2/25.3/43.0

1.2/2.0/11.4

empirical

profile

3.1/4.1/7.0

14.3/25.4/43.2

1.1/2.0/11.2

  1. Accuracy of abundance estimates from RNA-Seq data sets with different combinations of sequencing error models for simulation and estimation. Values are given as gene/global isoform/within-gene isoform.