Scientist, Bioinformatics

Scientist, Bioinformatics

Bridging the gap between Genomics and Data Science

RNA-Seq: raw reads to differential expression

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A simple RNA-Seq differential expression analysis using High Performance Computing (HPC).

The goal is to analyze RNA-Seq data using HPC. The software which will be used in this session is listed below.

  1. FastQC
  2. STAR
  3. HTSeq
  4. EdgeR

This pipeline is available as RNA-Seq Exercise

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