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ssizeRNA

Sample Size Calculation for RNA-Seq Experimental Design

v1.3.3 · Apr 8, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

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We propose a procedure for sample size calculation while controlling false discovery rate for RNA-seq experimental design. Our procedure depends on the Voom method proposed for RNA-seq data analysis by Law et al. (2014) <DOI:10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r29> and the sample size calculation method proposed for microarray experiments by Liu and Hwang (2007) <DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl664>. We develop a set of functions that calculates appropriate sample sizes for two-sample t-test for RNA-seq experiments with fixed or varied set of parameters. The outputs also contain a plot of power versus sample size, a table of power at different sample sizes, and a table of critical test values at different sample sizes. To install this package, please use 'source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R"); biocLite("ssizeRNA")'. For R version 3.5 or greater, please use 'if(!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)){install.packages("BiocManager")}; BiocManager::install("ssizeRNA")'.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies MASS Biobase edgeR limma qvalue ssize.fdr HEssRNA ssizeRNA

Version History

10 tracked
new 1.3.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.3 ← 1.3.2 diff Apr 8, 2025
updated 1.3.2 ← 1.3.1 diff Aug 19, 2019
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.2.9 diff Feb 18, 2019
updated 1.2.9 ← 1.2.8 diff Jan 8, 2017
updated 1.2.8 ← 1.2.6 diff Oct 21, 2016
updated 1.2.6 ← 1.2.4 diff Jul 14, 2016
updated 1.2.4 ← 1.1.2 diff Feb 11, 2016
updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff May 11, 2015
new 1.1.1 Apr 29, 2015