Feature is predictive of gene expression but does not seem to be based on metaplots
Hi Everyone,
I built a model to predict gene expression (high or low) based on certain transcription factors using ChIP-Seq data. So there are some features that are predictive, but when I look at the metaplots between the positive and negative examples, there is no significant difference in the curves around the regulatory region. These features have very low coverage though (like 3x or 5x coverage). Is it because of the standardization step? Should I still consider these features for functional validation?
Thank you.
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Machine learning questions are hard to answer without knowing the details. What kind of data, processing steps, features, model you got would be important to know. Anyway, it seems you're assuming that only known regulatory regions should be responsible for determining the outcome. What about other regions ? Also if your assumption is true, then in effect what you're looking at is correlation between individual features and classification output (see my answer to your previous question). A predictive feature doesn't have to be correlated with output.