Table 2.

Maximum height in hierarchical cluster analysis under all scenarios

Distance matrix	TPM (Fig. 1A)	CountDEseq2 (Fig. 1B)	CountTMM (Additional file 1: Figure S1A)	FPKM (Additional file 1: Figure S1B)	TPM-Zscore (Additional file 1: Figure S1C)	TPM-TMM (Additional file 1: Figure S3A)
1-Pearson	0.613	0.091	0.089	0.106	3.152a	0.102

^aSince Ward method is used as the linkage method, the height is not limited to the original scale and can be larger than 2