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StringTie to DESeq2 workflow

I am using StringTie for transcript assembly and mRNA expression profiling. Now I have ballgown files with some .ctab and .gtf files. Now I want to use DESeq2 for differential expression analysis. But I cannot use .ctab and .gtf files directly to DESeq2. Could you all suggest to me how to use DESeq2 for differential expression analysis in this instance? Thank you,

stringtie deseq2 rna-seq

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StringTie abundance estimates can be imported into R for use with DESeq using tximport::tximport. You will need a table mapping transcripts IDs to geneIDs (I think) if you want to do gene level analysis. I don't know if this is in the ctab or whether you need to manually extract it from the GTF. You can then import the estaimted counts into a DESeq object using DESeq2::DESeqDatasetFromTximport.

Personally, if I need to do de novo transcript assembly, I assemble with StringTie, and the use the resultant GTF file to requantitate the fastq files using salmon.

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