You can search and get to know some background knowledge before starting this practices,
- Try to understand and explain the following concepts:
- Central Dogma
- Exon
- Intron
- Gene
- Gene expression (it is a relative value or absolute value?)
- SNP
- germline mutation & somatic mutation
- Explain the principle of high throughput sequencing(like illumina) in your own words.
- What is the format for fastq file and gtf file?
- Introduce the TCGA database in your own words.
Part 0: TCGA,cBIoportal,GEPIA2 application
Part I: LINUX pactices & simple project.
Part II: RNA-seq analysis pipeline
Pert III: R + Differential expression analysis basic plots
NOTICES: Part 0 I II III are independent modules, no need to do in turn or complete all practices.