Table 2. Numbers of DEGs identified in the four SARS-CoV-2 RNA-seq datasets using two computational approaches.

Dataset	Method	No. of upregulated genes	No. of downregulated genes	Total No. of regulated genes
Zhou	Voom and quantile normalization	740	747	1,487
	DESeq2	140	6,538	6,678
Lieberman	Voom and quantile normalization	97	66	163
	DESeq2	337	826	1,163
Blanco-Melo	Voom and quantile normalization	28	138	166
	DESeq2	314	416	730
Israelow	Voom and quantile normalization	2	55	57
	DESeq2	144	6	150