Exercise

Filter genes

Now that the data have been log-transformed and quantile-normalized, you need to remove the lowly expressed genes that are not relevant to the system being studied.

Instructions

100 XP

The ExpressionSet object eset_norm with the normalized Populus data has been loaded in your workspace.

Use plotDensities to visualize the distribution of gene expression levels for each sample. Disable the legend.
Use rowMeans to determine which genes have a mean expression level greater than 5. Name this logical vector keep.
Filter the genes (i.e. rows) of the ExpressionSet object with the logical vector keep and re-visualize.