make
+For cygwin users, please uncomment the 3rd and 7th line in
+'sam/Makefile' before you run 'make'.
+
+To compile EBSeq, which is included in the RSEM package, run
+
+ make ebseq
+
To install, simply put the rsem directory in your environment's PATH
variable.
indices are not built.
RSEM requires all alignments of the same read group together. For
-paired-end reads, RSEM also requires the two mates of any alignment be
+vpaired-end reads, RSEM also requires the two mates of any alignment be
adjacent. To check if your SAM/BAM file satisfy the requirements,
please run
can take variance due to read mapping ambiguity into consideration by
grouping isoforms with parent gene's number of isoforms. In addition,
it is more robust to outliers. For more information about EBSeq
-(including the paper describing their method), please visit <a
-href="http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~ningleng/EBSeq_Package">EBSeq
-website</a>.
+(including the paper describing their method), please visit [EBSeq's
+website](http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~ningleng/EBSeq_Package).
+
RSEM includes EBSeq in its folder named 'EBSeq'. To use it, first type
Lastly, RSEM provides two scripts, 'rsem-run-ebseq' and
'rsem-control-fdr', to help users find differential expressed
-genes. First, 'rsem-run-ebseq' calls EBSeq to calculate related statistics
+genes/transcripts. First, 'rsem-run-ebseq' calls EBSeq to calculate related statistics
for all genes/transcripts. Run
rsem-run-ebseq --help
two scripts can perform DE analysis on either 2 conditions or multiple
conditions.
+Please note that 'rsem-run-ebseq' and 'rsem-control-fdr' use EBSeq's
+default parameters. For advanced use of EBSeq or information about how
+EBSeq works, please refer to [EBSeq's
+manual](http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/EBSeq/inst/doc/EBSeq_Vignette.pdf).
+
Questions related to EBSeq should
be sent to <a href="mailto:nleng@wisc.edu">Ning Leng</a>.