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DIscBIO (version 1.2.2)

VolcanoPlot: Volcano Plot

Description

Plotting differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in a particular cluster. Volcano plots are used to readily show the DEGs by plotting significance versus fold-change on the y and x axes, respectively.

Usage

VolcanoPlot(object, value = 0.05, name = NULL, fc = 0.5, FS = 0.4)

Value

A volcano plot

Arguments

object

A data frame showing the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in a particular cluster

value

A numeric value of the false discovery rate. Default is 0.05.. Default is 0.05

name

A string vector showing the name to be used on the plot title

fc

A numeric value of the fold change. Default is 0.5.

FS

A numeric value of the font size. Default is 0.4.