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ArticleJournal of biological rhythms2020

TimeTrial: An Interactive Application for Optimizing the Design and Analysis of Transcriptomic Time-Series Data in Circadian Biology Research.

Elan Ness-Cohn, Marta Iwanaszko, William L Kath, Ravi Allada, Rosemary Braun

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Article in Journal of biological rhythms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Temperature-driven coordination of circadian transcriptome regulation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  9. Integrative Analysis of Rhythmicity: From Biology to Urban Environments and Sustainability.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5 authors.

Elan Ness-CohnBiostatistics Division, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3935-6667
Marta IwanaszkoBiostatistics Division, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
William L KathNSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Ravi AlladaNSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Rosemary BraunBiostatistics Division, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The circadian rhythm drives the oscillatory expression of thousands of genes across all tissues, coordinating physiological processes. The effect of this rhythm on health has generated increasing interest in discovering genes under circadian control by searching for periodic patterns in transcriptomic time-series experiments. While algorithms for detecting cycling transcripts have advanced, there remains little guidance quantifying the effect of experimental design and analysis choices on cycling detection accuracy. We present TimeTrial, a user-friendly benchmarking framework using both real and synthetic data to investigate cycle detection algorithms' performance and improve circadian experimental design. Results show that the optimal choice of analysis method depends on the sampling scheme, noise level, and shape of the waveform of interest and provides guidance on the impact of sampling frequency and duration on cycling detection accuracy. The TimeTrial software is freely available for download and may also be accessed through a web interface. By supplying a tool to vary and optimize experimental design considerations, TimeTrial will enhance circadian transcriptomics studies.

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Circadian RhythmSoftwareTranscriptomeAlgorithmsAnimalsChronobiology DisciplineGene Expression ProfilingHumansMiceTime Factorsbenchmarkingbiostatisticscircadian biologycomputational biologyexperimental design guidelinesgene expression analysisrhythm detection

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PMID32613882
PMCPMC7534021

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