Raw RNA-Seq expression data obtained from a N starvation time course experiment on C. reinhardtii wild type CC-3269 (Boyle et al. 2012, GEO data set GSE34585 ) was aligned with STAR to the current genome annotation (version 5.5 from Phytozome). Next, using cuffdiff, we computed for each transcript i at each time point t, the log2 expression ratio, r as,
ri (t) = log2 [ ( xi (t) +1 ) / (xi (t=0) +1)]
where xi (t) represents the expression in fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads (FPKM) of transcript i at time t. We filtered out unchanging transcripts and noisy expression measurements by selecting any transcript that complied with any of the following two rules: (1) ri (t) > abs (1) during the lipid accumulation time points, i.e., at time points 8 h, 12 h, 24 h and 48 h after N starvation or (2) consistent ri (t) > abs (1) for a single period of at least 30 min.
The matrix of r values for the 2,150 transcripts can be downloaded here.
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