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# Bulk miRNA

## Expression Count Matrix

Examples of expression count matrix are miRNA, Filtered counts, Normalized counts. Analysis tasks that can be invoked from expression count matrix are listed below.

| Task Menu Section         | Analysis Task Name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Annotation/Metadata       | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/annotation-metadata/publish-cell-attributes-to-project">Publish attributes to study</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| QA/QC                     | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/qa-qc/feature-distribution">Feature distribution</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Pre-analysis tools        | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/merge-matrices">Merge matrices</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/annotation-metadata/annotate-cells-1">Annotate features</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Filtering                 | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/filtering/filter-features">Filter features</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/filtering/filter-groups-samples-or-cells">Filter samples</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/filtering/split-by-attribute">Split by attribute</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Normalization and scaling | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/normalization-and-scaling/normalization">Normalization</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/normalization-and-scaling/normalize-to-baseline">Normalization to baseline</a></li><li>Scale expression (Available on normalized data only)</li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/normalization-and-scaling/impute-low-expression">Impute low expression</a> (Available on normalized data only)</li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/normalization-and-scaling/impute-missing-values">Impute missing values</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Batch removal             | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/batch-removal/general-linear-model">General linear model</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Statistics                | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/differential-analysis">Differential analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/correlation-analysis-1">Correlation</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/correlation-analysis">Descriptive statistics</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/compute-biomarkers">Compute biomarkers</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/survival-analysis-with-cox-regression-and-kaplan-meier-analysis#cox-regression">Cox Regression</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/survival-analysis-with-cox-regression-and-kaplan-meier-analysis#kaplan-meier-survival-curve">Kaplan-Meier</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/survival-analysis-with-cox-regression-and-kaplan-meier-analysis-1">Classification</a></li></ul>                                                                                                              |
| Exploratory analysis      | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/graph-based-clustering">Graph-based clustering</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/k-means-clustering">K-means clustering</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/compare-clusters">Compare clusters</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/pca">PCA</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/t-sne">t-SNE</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/umap">UMAP</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/hierarchical-clustering">Hierarchical clustering / heatmap</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/aucell">AUCell</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/svd">SVD</a></li></ul> |
| Biological interpretation | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/biological-interpretation/gsea">GSEA</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/biological-interpretation/gsea-1">Gene set ANOVA</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

## PCA

Analysis tasks that can be invoked from PCA data node are listed below.

| Task Menu Section    | Analysis Task Name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Annotation/Metadata  | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/annotation-metadata/publish-cell-attributes-to-project">Publish attributes to study</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Batch removal        | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/batch-removal/general-linear-model">General linear model</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/batch-removal/harmony">Harmony</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Statistics           | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/differential-analysis">Differential analysis</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/correlation-analysis-1">Correlation</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/correlation-analysis">Descriptive statistics</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/compute-biomarkers">Compute biomarkers</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/survival-analysis-with-cox-regression-and-kaplan-meier-analysis#cox-regression">Cox Regression</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/survival-analysis-with-cox-regression-and-kaplan-meier-analysis#kaplan-meier-survival-curve">Kaplan-Meier</a></li></ul>                           |
| Exploratory analysis | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/graph-based-clustering">Graph-based clustering</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/k-means-clustering">K-means clustering</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/compare-clusters">Compare clusters</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/t-sne">t-SNE</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/umap">UMAP</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/find-multimodal-neighbors">Find multimodal neighbors</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/svd">SVD</a></li></ul> |
| Conversion           | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/conversion">Export matrix</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

## Differential Analysis Result

Analysis tasks that can be invoked from differential analysis result (e.g., DESeq2) are listed below.

| Task Menu Section         | Analysis Task Name                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| QA/QC                     | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/qa-qc/feature-distribution">Feature distribution</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Filtering                 | <ul><li>Differential analysis filter</li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Statistics                | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/statistics/correlation-analysis">Descriptive statistics</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Exploratory analysis      | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/hierarchical-clustering">Hierarchical clustering / heatmap</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/exploratory-analysis/merge-differential-expression-results">Merge differential expression results</a></li></ul> |
| Motif detection           | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/motif-detection#detect-de-novo-motifs">Detect de novo motifs</a></li><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/motif-detection#search-for-known-motifs">Search for known motifs</a></li></ul>                                                     |
| Biological interpretation | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/biological-interpretation/get-targeted-mrna">Get targeted mRNA</a></li></ul>                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

## Targeted mRNA

Analysis tasks that can be invoked from targated mRNA data are listed below.

| Task Menu Section         | Analysis Task Name                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Filtering                 | <ul><li>Filter targeted mRNA</li></ul>                                                                                                                                               |
| Biological interpretation | <ul><li><a href="https://help.multiomics.illumina.com/icm/analyses/analysis-functionality/task-menu/biological-interpretation/gene-set-enrichment">Gene set enrichment</a></li></ul> |


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