BIF-30806 Group Project Group (A)rabidopsis: David Nieuwenhuijse Matthew Price Qianqian Zhang Thijs Slijkhuis Species: C. Elegans Project: Advanced (+Basic)
Progress Report
Project Overview Dataset Preparation Transcriptome Construction Pipeline Differentially Expressed Genes Gene Function Biological Explanation Co-expressed Genes Modules Functional Description & Explanation Module Conservation b/w species Gene Expression (Basic Project) Relationship to Transcript Properties Visualisation of Interaction Network
Results so far David Nieuwenhuijse Qianqian Zhang GeneID and GO term extraction tool Cytoscape GO enrichment analysis Finding automatic GO enrichment tool for pipeline Qianqian Zhang Create shell script for running Cuffdiff, Gffread and Samtools program Get the gene lists of most differentially expressed genes and highest expressed genes Visualization of differentially expressed genes by cummeRbund package: Density plot, Scatter plot, Volcano plot, P value distribution plot, MA plot etc. Basic statistics of differentially expressed genes
Results so far Matthew Price Thijs Slijkhuis Script for listing the top 100 expressed genes Script for determining GC-content, transcript & intron length Script for getting correlation between each transcript property and the expression level Thijs Slijkhuis Created a shell script that: Downloads the source files Converts SRA into FASTQ files Performs bowtie2-build Performs tophat Performs cufflinks Programmed a script that sorts cuffdiff output on p-value (significance in differential expression), extracts gene names from it
Issues/Challenges Co-expressed Genes Modules GO enrichment analysis WGCNA package not usable in our case Use cummeRbund package to get Heatmaps GO enrichment analysis Not many genes are annotated in the GO database. Gene id of the differentially expressed genes are not compatible with the NCBI database. Transcript sequences Not all expressed transcripts in the .gtf file can be matched to their corresponding sequence in the fasta file.
Thank you for your attention!