Hello Rob, Yes, this is what the developer suggested. Normalize each independently, then compare between groups. Thank you, Jennifer Jackson
ps. Be sure to send new questions and follow-up questions to the mailing list for the quickest reply. > Dear Jennifer, > > Thank you for replying. Please, see below if I correctly understood > your suggestions. > > We should go for all phastCons conserved elements. > In order to convert between scales (vertebrates vs placental mammals > vs primate-specific), we should first pull down all lod scores from > vertebrate, mammalian-specific and primate-specific phastCons > elements. Then, in each file, add-up values of lod scores and divide > these sums by the number of elements. In this way, we will have three > means of lod scores. Do you think this would be the bext way to go about? > Thank you. > > I look forward to receiving your reply. > > With best regards, > /Rob > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - Genome@soe.ucsc.edu > http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - Genome@soe.ucsc.edu http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome