What is the difference between counts and expression level?
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Hello, Can somebody help me? I've a question. What is the difference between counts and expression level?

RNA-Seq rna-seq R counts expression level • 2.9k views
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Counts are what you obtain once you align your sequence data and count the number of reads mapping to interesting features (e.g. exons). They are a proxy for the expression level of those features.

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Why is this tagged with "R" ?

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