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Question about a plot of RNAseq

I was wondering is there any tool or method that can generate Fig 5A of https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14049?WT.feed_name=subjects_genetics. I know it is generated in moncole/ cell ranger/ surat, however if I have matrix than i may be able to draw it with any other tool and may have control over colors etc.

Thanks

rna-seq

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If you are familiar with R, you could use the package "DESeq2", which makes it easy to do PCA and/or MDS. I used this toturial, however this seems also nice.

Using your count matrix and a meta data frame, which is created very quickly with this package, you get to your PCA plot in a few lines of code.

Figure 5, those are neither PCA nor MDS plots. Those are t-stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) plots. This is a machine learning data-reduction method that is typically used for plotting high-dimensional data such as that from mass cytometry and other single cell data-types.

If you want to learn more about it (including how to implement it in R):


If you do just want to do PCA, look at my answer here: A: PCA plot from read count matrix from RNA-Seq

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