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Interpreting fractionated RNA-seq data poses a fundamental compositional challenge: library preparation and sequencing depth obscure the original proportions of RNA fractions, which can bias comparisons\u2014particularly when biological changes shift RNA distribution across fractions. This bias compromises comparisons of fraction-specific RNA profiles and limits the utility of standard differential expression methods. Existing approaches using transcript frequency ratios or standard normalization fail to account for the compositional nature of fractionated samples and also cannot estimate the unrecoverable \u201clost\u201d fraction. We developed FracFixR, a statistical framework that reconstructs original fraction proportions by modeling the compositional relationship between the whole and the fractionated RNA samples. Using non-negative linear regression on carefully selected transcripts, FracFixR estimates global fraction weights, corrects individual transcript frequencies, and quantifies the unrecoverable material. The framework includes methods for differential proportion testing between conditions using binomial GLM, logit, or beta-binomial models. 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