Is it possible to calculate TPM using 10X Genomics public data?
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Athena • 0

I'm wondering if using data from there (link below) i could find/calculate TPM https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/datasets/2.0.1/pbmc4k or is this data not sufficient enough to do that?

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Why do you want TPM? TPM divides counts by transcript length but with UMI-tagged data, it isn't necessarily true that longer length -> more counts. I'd recommend not dividing by transcript length for 10X data.

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Im trying to run a correlation test using my bulk data (either using RPKM/FPKM/TSM) and do some further downstream analysis.

What would be a better method then, if you do not recommend dividing transcript length?

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Just don't divide by transcript lengths. Just take a gene's UMI count and divide it by the total number of UMIs in a cell (this is essentially what TPM is except we're not dividing by transcript length).

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Just use the raw counts. All of the above methods introduce a single linear scaling factor so correlation does not change regardless of the method -- unless you introduce something like a per-gene factor such as length -- which as pointed out makes no sense for 10X data.

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I would use a standard single-cell method like the LogNormalize from the Seurat package on the counts. Length normalisation only matters for full-length transcriptome sequencing.

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