Introduction to RNA-seqWhere are we heading towards in this workshop?

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Illustration of part of the central dogma of molecular biology, where DNA is transcribed to RNA, and intronic sequences are spliced out

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Illustration of the major experimental steps of an RNA-seq experiment

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A classification of many different factors affecting measurements obtained from an experiment into treatment, biological, technical and error effects

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Illustration of a set of reads generated by a sequencer, and genomic and transcriptomic reference sequences

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An example MA plotAn example heatmap

Downloading and organizing files

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Basic gene annotation in GTF format
Basic gene annotation in GTF format

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Reference genome file in FASTA format
Reference genome file in FASTA format

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Transcript sequences file in FASTA format
Transcript sequences file in FASTA format

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FASTQ files from GEO
FASTQ files from GEO

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FASTQ files from SRA Run Selector
FASTQ files from SRA Run Selector

Quality control of RNA-seq reads

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Per base sequence quality for a typical RNA-seq dataset
Per base sequence quality for a typical RNA-seq dataset

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Per tile sequence quality plot
Per tile sequence quality plot

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Distribution of per sequence quality scores
Distribution of per sequence quality scores

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Per base sequence content for RNA-seq reads
Per base sequence content for RNA-seq reads

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Per sequence GC content distribution
Per sequence GC content distribution

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Per base N content plot
Per base N content plot

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Sequence length distribution for RNA-seq data
Sequence length distribution for RNA-seq data

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Sequence duplication levels
Sequence duplication levels

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Adapter content across the read
Adapter content across the read

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Example MultiQC summary across all samples
Example MultiQC summary across all samples

A. Genome-based quantification (STAR + featureCounts)

B. Transcript-based quantification (Salmon)

Gene-level QC and differential expression (DESeq2)

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Open OnDemand interface
Open OnDemand interface

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Distribution of gene biotypes in annotation
Distribution of gene biotypes in annotation

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Total assigned reads per sample
Total assigned reads per sample

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Size factors vs library size
Size factors vs library size

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average counts vs variance
average counts vs variance

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average counts vs variance after transformation
average counts vs variance after transformation

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Eucledean distance heatmap
Eucledean distance heatmap

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PCA plot showing sample clustering
PCA plot showing sample clustering

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Dispersion estimates from DESeq2
Dispersion estimates from DESeq2

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Volcano plot of differential expression results
Volcano plot of differential expression results

Gene set enrichment analysis