CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.5 ------------------------ o Fixed a hang which could occur in the GLM fitting procedure. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.3 ------------------------ o Fixed simple bug when using normalizationFactors and running nbinomWaldTest, error was "no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector". CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.2 ------------------------ o Fixed bugs: estimating beta prior for interaction between factor and numeric; not returning row names for counts(); construction of DESeqDataSet gives wrong error when there are empty levels: instead now drops the levels for the user. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.1 ------------------------ o Fixed bug where DESeqDataSetFromHTSeqCount() imported the special rows, "_ambiguous", etc. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4.0 ------------------------ o *** USAGE NOTE *** Expanded model matrices are now used when betaPrior = TRUE (the default). Therefore, level comparison results should be extracted using the 'contrast' argument to the results() function. Expanded model matrices produce shrinkage of log fold changes that is independent of the choice of base level. Expanded model matrices are not used in the case of designs with an interaction term between factors with only 2 levels. o The order of the arguments 'name' and 'contrast' to the results() function are swapped, to indicate that 'contrast' should be used for the standard comparisons of levels against each other. Calling results() with no arguments will still produce the same comparison: the fold change of the last level of the last design variable over the first level of the last design variable. See ?results for more details. o The DESeq() function will automatically replace count outliers flagged by Cook's distance when there are 7 or more replicates. The DESeq() argument 'minReplicatesForReplace' (default 7) is used to decide which samples are eligible for automatic replacement. This default behavior helps to prevent filtering genes based on Cook's distance when there are many degrees of freedom. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.58 ------------------------- o Added a list() option to the 'contrast' argument of results(). See examples in ?results. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.24 ------------------------- o rlogTransformation() gains an argument 'fast', which switches to an approximation of the rlog transformation. Speed-up is ~ 2x. o A more robust estimator for the beta prior variance is used: instead of taking the mean of squared MLE betas, the prior variance is found by matching an upper quantile of the absolute value of MLE betas with an upper quantile of a zero-centered Normal distribution. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.17 ------------------------- o It is possible to use a log2 fold change prior (beta prior) and obtain likelihood ratio test p-values, although the default for test="LRT" is still betaPrior=FALSE. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.15 ------------------------- o The DESeq() function will automatically replace count outliers flagged by Cook's distance when there are 7 or more replicates. The DESeq() argument 'minReplicatesForReplace' (default 7) is used to decide which samples are eligible for automatic replacement. This default behavior helps to prevent filtering genes based on Cook's distance when there are many degrees of freedom. o The results() function produces an object of class 'DESeqResults' which is a simple subclass of 'DataFrame'. This class allows for methods to be written specifically for DESeq2 results. For example, plotMA() can be called on a 'DESeqResults' object. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.12 ------------------------- o Added a check in nbinomWaldTest which ensures that priors on logarithmic fold changes are only estimated for interactions terms, in the case that interaction terms are present in the design formula. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.6 ------------------------ o Reduced the amount of filtering from Cook's cutoff: maximum no longer includes samples from experimental groups with only 2 samples, the default F quantile is raised to 0.99, and a robust estimate of dispersion is used to calculate Cook's distance instead of the fitted dispersion. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.5 ------------------------ o New arguments to results(), 'lfcThreshold' and 'alternativeHypothesis', allow for tests of log fold changes which are above or below a given threshold. o plotMA() function now passes ellipses arguments to the results() function. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.32 ------------------------- o By default, use QR decomposition on the design matrix X. This stabilizes the GLM fitting. Can be turned off with the useQR argument of nbinomWaldTest() and nbinomLRT(). o Allow for "frozen" normalization of new samples using previous estimated parameters for the functions: estimateSizeFactors(), varianceStabilizingTransformation(), and rlogTransformation(). See manual pages for details and examples. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.31 ------------------------- o The adjustment of p-values and use of Cook's distance for outlier detection is moved to results() function instead of nbinomWaldTest(), nbinomLRT(), or DESeq(). This allows the user to change parameter settings without having to refit the model. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.24 ------------------------- o The results() function allows the user to specify a contrast of coefficients, either using the names of the factor and levels, or using a numeric contrast vector. Contrasts are only available for the Wald test differential analysis. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.23 ------------------------- o The results() function automatically performs independent filtering using the genefilter package and optimizing over the mean of normalized counts. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.21 ------------------------- o The regularized log transformation uses the fitted dispersions instead of the MAP dispersions. This prevents large, true log fold changes from being moderated due to a large dispersion estimate blind to the design formula. This behavior is also more consistent with the variance stabilizing transformation. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.10 ------------------------- o Outlier detection: Cook's distances are calculated for each sample per gene and the matrix is stored in the assays list. These values are used to determine genes in which a single sample disproportionately influences the fitted coefficients. These genes are flagged and the p-values set to NA. The argument 'cooksCutoff' of nbinomWaldTest() and nbinomLRT() can be used to control this functionality. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.0.0 ------------------------ o Base class: SummarizedExperiment is used as the superclass for storing the data. o Workflow: The wrapper function DESeq() performs all steps for a differential expression analysis. Individual steps are still accessible. o Statistics: Incorporation of prior distributions into the estimation of dispersions and fold changes (empirical-Bayes shrinkage). A Wald test for significance is provided as the default inference method, with the likelihood ratio test of the previous version also available. o Normalization: it is possible to provide a matrix of sample- *and* gene-specific normalization factors