NanoString nCounter is a medium-throughput technology used in mRNA and miRNA differential expression studies. It offers several advantages, including the absence of an amplification step and the ability to analyze low-grade samples. Despite its considerable strengths, the popularity of the nCounter platform in experimental research stabilized in 2022 and 2023, and this trend may continue in the upcoming years. Such stagnation could potentially be attributed to the absence of a standardized analytical pipeline or the indication of optimal processing methods for nCounter data analysis. To standardize the description of the nCounter data analysis workflow, we divided it into five distinct steps: data pre-processing, quality control, background correction, normalization and differential expression analysis. Next, we evaluated eleven R packages dedicated to nCounter data processing to point out functionalities belonging to these steps and provide comments on their applications in studies of mRNA and miRNA samples.
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