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Units for pathway expression #14

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Hey.

No worries at all. In the SCPA output, the Qval that we give is a transformed adjusted pval, and is the metric that we recommend using. You can consider that the higher the Qval, the more differentially regulated the pathway is between conditions. If you're doing a two-sample comparison, we also give a fold change value that's calculated from average pathway expression in population1 - population2 (it's a running sum of mean changes in gene expression for that pathway), so a negative value means the pathway will be higher in population2. Hope that's what you were looking for?

I'll also add some more detailed explanation into the help documentation -- ?compare_pathways() -- to give a …

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