FPKM and RPKM are the same thing. FPKM is simply a more literal way of referring to a DNA fragment as the source of the "read" information (as opposed to "R" for read, which merely implies the fragment based on one read). There are no "biases" that are removed by simply changing the name of something. By the way, why did @RM put the answer in a comment, rather than in an answer?
Rpkm Calculation
Hi Everyone
I am interested in finding the rpkm values for my genes(exons). The basic definition of RPKM given is :
Now My question is i have in begining a fastq file from which i did my analysis and got sam files or bam files and count the reads.
In the formula for RPKM it's written in the denominator that mapped reads(millions). How can we get this mapped read number.
If i get this from fastq file then i dont think it would be the correct mapped reads , because not all the reads match to the ref genome,or is it.
Hope to hear from you guys soon
Thanks Regards
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you can found answer in this link: http://groups.google.com/group/unix-and-perl-for-biologists/browse_thread/thread/04bac7f4e7940770?pli=1
I have a c code:
double cal_rpkm (unsigned int reads_count, unsigned int total_length, unsigned int mapped_reads_num) {
return reads_count / (mapped_reads_num * 1e-9 * total_length);
}
Hope it works for you.
As @RM mentioned before you can flag stats to count the number of mapped reads.
There are many tools to calculate RPKM. You can use ERANGE for example. However FPKM is an improved version of RPKM that remove biases more efficiently. For this you can use Cufflinks.
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