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Priyanka Manandhar

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Oct 18, 2021, 1:40:37 PM10/18/21
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Hello, 
I have used GSEA successfully in the past, but I'm having some problems now. I'm trying to run a dataset with 3WT and 2KO samples and I've attached the screenshots of the error as well as the datasets. 
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Priya
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Anthony Castanza

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Oct 18, 2021, 1:54:51 PM10/18/21
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Hi Priya

 

I'm not seeing anything obviously wrong with the way the dataset is constructed, however the GCT headers don't quite match the spec exactly: https://software.broadinstitute.org/cancer/software/gsea/wiki/index.php/Data_formats#GCT:_Gene_Cluster_Text_file_format_.28.2A.gct.29

 

You could try changing the "Identifier" and "name" columns to "NAME" and "Description" respectively. Just to see if that might be the issue.

 

That said, you're going to run into a couple of additional issues with this dataset. With only two samples for one of the phenotypes, you're not going to be able to run this dataset with the default Signal2Noise ranking metric as this requires a minimum of three samples per phenotype. To get around this, you'd have to change to another option, like log2_ratio_of_classes. However, at that point, I noticed that there are quite a few genes with zeros for all samples, those will likely cause divide-by-zero errors in this mode. You'd also need to run in gene_set permuation mode.

 

A better option might be to compute differential expression with something like DESeq2 and use the resulting list of Log2FC or the wald statistic as a ranked list in GSEA Preranked. This option is probably the most straightforward way to handle this particular dataset.

 

-Anthony

 

Anthony S. Castanza, PhD

Curator, Molecular Signatures Database

Mesirov Lab, Department of Medicine

University of California, San Diego

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