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CUfflink data for statistical test

Can I use normal statistical test on cufflink data since its already normalised , so can i use parametric statistics on those normalised data and find differential expression , instead of running doing a cuff-diff analysis ?

Any suggestion would be highly appreciated

rna-seq r

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If you want to use a transcriptome assembler, I think you'd be much safer using Stringtie, as Tophat2 + Cufflinks are in low support / deprecated. There's a method for making these results compatible with DESeq2 / edgeR, see the section "Using StringTie with DESeq2 and edgeR" on that link.

well i already did the tophat protocol but Im looking to test differential expression apart from cuffdiff , like can i apply T- test on the cufflink nopmralised data ?

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