[BioC] Regarding Limma differential expression.

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at uw.edu
Tue Feb 19 17:18:17 CET 2013


Without replicates all you can really do is compute fold changes. You 
might get some traction with the RankProd package, but I have no 
experience so can't say for sure.

Best,

Jim



On 2/19/2013 8:28 AM, nitin mandloi wrote:
> Dear sir,
>
>                 I am doing differential expression analysis with limma. In
> ebFit = eBayes(fit2) I am getting error:  Error in ebayes(fit = fit,
> proportion = proportion, stdev.coef.lim = stdev.coef.lim,  :  No residual
> degrees of freedom in linear model fits. It is may be because I don't have
> replicates. So what should I do to for differential expression now.
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> Thank you
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> Nitin Mandloi
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> Sandor Proteomics Pvt. Ltd., hyderabad
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