How to deal with sequencing depths in multiple samples.
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Hi, thanks for providing the software.
I have multiple samples and have run TRUST on each of them, but the sequencing depths are different between samples, do you think there is a suitable solution for this?
Thanks
The sequencing depth most affect your diversity measures. For example, I would imagine the Shannon entropy could be higher in deeper sequenced samples. But the number of TCRs/BCRs you can detect is also confounded by the lymphocyte infiltration level, so the final correlation is uncertain. You can examine whether the correlation holds in your samples by checking the correlation between diversity and the sequence depth.
For normalized diversity measure, such as clonality, I don't think the sequencing depth would affect the result very much.
I would have similar concerns. If I detect significant batch effects among the population-based bulk RNA-seq data, should I correct this batch effect within final clonality tabular matrix?
That's a good question. How do we correct the batch effect of clonality?