In RNA-seq normalization, upper quartile normalization = divide each read count by 75th quantile of read counts in its sample.
Arguments
- vals
numeric df/vector
- q
numeric; quartile to normalize by (ex.
q = 75
is 75th quantile / upper quartile)- target
numeric; value to scale by
- min
numeric; filter to values above
min
for quantile normalization- perl
logical;
TRUE
to match output ofquartile_norm.pl
commonly used in Graeber Lab RNA-seq analysis