adv of RPKM for gene expression profile

Question

[enterid]

I am doing a research on long non coding RNA gene expression in lung cancer , when i was reading difference research paper, i do find that many of them are using RPKM as expression unit why they like to do this instead of using the raw expression data set ?

Answer 1

[Arnaud Ceol]

I found this useful post about this topic some time ago: https://haroldpimentel.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/what-the-fpkm-a-review-rna-seq-expression-units/ , it should answer your question.