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Analysis of snRNAseq data of muscle samples from patients with muscular diseases

This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.

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Project Description

This project deals with the study of neuromuscular disorders. We have single nuclei RNA-seq, Spatial transcriptomics (10x Visium), single nuclei ATAC-seq data from different NMDs (Pompe, Duchenne, SMA, ALS, VCP) and healthy controls. These datasets are being analysed by using computational methods.


Software or Compute Methods

We require access to Jupyter Notebook and R/RStudio for interactive analysis and visualization of snRNA-seq, snATAC-seq, and spatial transcriptomics data. For command-line workflows, we need FastQC, MultiQC, fastp for quality control, STAR, HISAT2, Salmon for alignment and quantification, and samtools, bedtools, featureCounts for file manipulation and counting. Optional tools for multi-modal analyses include bwa, bowtie2, MACS2, and cellranger/spaceranger. These modules will enable end-to-end pre-processing, analysis, and visualization of our datasets.