BOOKED OUT: RNA-seq Differential Gene Expression analysis in R – 5 June

5 June 2019 - 9.30am-4.30pm
Room 555, Arts West, University of Melbourne

Workshops

BOOKED OUT: RNA-seq Differential Gene Expression analysis in R – 5 June

This workshop introduces the analysis of RNA-seq count data using R. This will include reading the data into R, quality control and preprocessing, and performing differential expression analysis and gene set testing, with a focus on the limma-voom analysis workflow. This workshop does not cover the alignment of RNA-seq data to a reference genome in order to generate count data. For an introduction to that topic, refer to our Galaxy-based RNA-seq workshops. Learning outcomes At the end of this workshop you will be able to:
  • Read RNA-seq count data into R
  • Produce diagnostic plots of the data, carry out quality checks, and recognise common issues
  • Perform differential gene expression analysis between two groups to obtain a set of differentially expressed genes
  • Annotate differentially expressed genes
  • Perform simple gene-set testing analysis
Requirements (Audience/Prerequisites) This workshop assumes some knowledge of the R programming language. If you are not familiar with R, it is compulsory that you work through an introductory R course before you attend this workshop. Introductory R courses are offered periodically by Research Platforms here. Self-guided introductory R courses are also made available by Software Carpentry. We suggest following the course materials at http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/ up to and including Topic 9 (Vectorisation). NB: is workshop has been developed from existing workshop materials produced by COMBINE. Attendance is not recommended if you have already participated in a COMBINE workshop on this same topic. Participants must bring their own laptops, and the required software packages must be pre-installed:
  1. Download and install R from https://cran.r-project.org/. The latest version is recommended.
  2. Download and install RStudio from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/. The free version is all you need.
  3. Install R packages by opening RStudio and copying the following commands into your console:
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))

   install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install(c("tidyverse", "edgeR", "Glimma", "gplots", "RColorBrewer", "org.Mm.eg.db", "BiasedUrn"))
  1. Check you can load the following libraries without issue:
library(edgeR)

library(limma)

library(Glimma)

library(gplots)

library(org.Mm.eg.db)

library(RColorBrewer)
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