Wrap up

Functional analysis matches observed expression patterns against a library of known biological gene sets. Adding this biological context connects observed patterns with the research question.

We hope you now have more familiarity with key concepts, tools, and techniques used in functional analysis.

Housekeeping

Please take our optional post-workshop survey (5-10 minutes).
We will email you a link to the final session recordings next week.
This workshop website (aka “show notes”) will be available.
The content in the UM Bioinformatics Core Workshop Slack channel will be available for 90 days.

Can I continue to use the RStudio environments we used in the workshop?

The RStudio workshop compute environment will be available through 9/24/2025.
- Please save all your R scripts now so that we can “right-size” the compute environment immediately following today’s workshop session.
You can download files from the workshop environment from your terminal/command line window as below. (You will need to substitute your actual workshop username and type workshop password when prompted.)
```
mkdir workshop-intro-functional-analysis
scp -r YOUR_USERNAME@bfx-workshop01.med.umich.edu:"IFUN*" workshop-intro-functional-analysis
```
Where else could I use this software?
- See Advanced setup instructions for details on how to install RStudio and required packages on your own computer.
- UMich users can run RStudio/WebGestaltR on the UM Great Lakes HPC.