diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_de.R b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_de.R
index c55baed..a04b1b3 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_de.R
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_de.R
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ root = "../.."
 date = "YYYYMMDD"
 column = "sample_type"
 subset_column = NA
-metadata_fn = "/n/data1/cores/bcbio/platform/bcbioR-test-data/rnaseq/bcbio/coldata.csv"
-counts_fn = '/n/data1/cores/bcbio/platform/bcbioR-test-data/rnaseq/bcbio/tximport-counts.csv'
+metadata_fn = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcbio/bcbioR-test-data/main/rnaseq/bcbio/coldata.csv"
+counts_fn = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcbio/bcbioR-test-data/main/rnaseq/bcbio/tximport-counts.csv'
 basedir <- 'results'
diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_qc.R b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_qc.R
index 894469a..505561d 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_qc.R
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rnaseq/skeleton/params_qc.R
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ aim = 'short description'
 analyst = 'person in the core'
 
 
-metadata_fn="/n/data1/cores/bcbio/platform/bcbioR-test-data/rnaseq/bcbio/coldata.csv"
-se_object="/n/data1/cores/bcbio/platform/bcbioR-test-data/rnaseq/bcbio/bcbio-se.rds"
+metadata_fn='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcbio/bcbioR-test-data/main/rnaseq/bcbio/coldata.csv'
+se_object=url("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcbio/bcbioR-test-data/main/rnaseq/bcbio/bcbio-se.rds")