Wrapping up

We hope you now have more familiarity with key concepts, data types, tools, and how they all connect to enable single-cell gene expression analysis from RNA-Seq data.


Housekeeping


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

  • The RStudio workshop compute environment will be available through 8/15/2025.

    • 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.)

    # download workshop files -------------------------------------------------
    mkdir intro_scrnaseq_workshop
    cd intro_scrnaseq_workshop
    scp -r YOUR_USERNAME@bfx-workshop01.med.umich.edu:"ISC_R*" .
    • Note that the full download of the R data is about 8Gb, so depending on your internet speeds it could take a while. (We do not recommend you download the full set of Cell Ranger outputs.)

Where else could I use RStudio?

  • See Advanced setup instructions for details on how to install RStudio and required packages on your own computer. Please note:
    • Installing bioinformatics software is often non-trivial.
    • For typical data, Cell Ranger steps (reviewed Day 1) assume your computer has powerful compute (many CPUs and lots of RAM) and sizable storage capacity. (i.e. it’s impractical to run these on your laptop.)
  • PositCloud allows you to run R-Studio over the web for free. Click here to login to PositCloud and launch an R session. (UM users can login using their umich.edu Google account.) Note: A full single-cell analysis will require you to upgrade beyond the free tier.
  • UMich users can run RStudio on the UM Great Lakes HPC.

Could I download Seurat inputs used in the workshop?

  • The Seurat inputs (cellranger triples and dbcells files) used in this workshop can be installed locally like so:

    # download Seurat inputs --------------------------------------------------
    mkdir -p intro_scrnaseq_workshop/ISC_R
    cd intro_scrnaseq_workshop/ISC_R
    
    # Use curl to download a ~3 Gb tarball
    # We'll use evironment variables to avoid extremely long command lines
    source_url="https://umich-brcf-bioinf-workshop.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
    source_file="ISC/workshop_isc_inputs-20250730.tgz"
    curl -o workshop_isc_inputs.tgz ${source_url}/${source_file}
    
    # tar unpacks the tarball into directories
    tar xzvf workshop_isc_inputs.tgz
    
    # Since we have unpacked the tarball, we can remove it
    rm workshop_isc_inputs.tgz



Can you recommend other relevant workshops or tutorials?


How can I learn more about computational research at University of Michigan?


Thank you to our sponsors


Thank you to/from the workshop team

Chris Marci Travis
Daisy Dana Weisheng
Ford Tricia Raymond


Thank you for participating in our workshop. We welcome your questions and feedback now and in the future.

Bioinformatics Workshop Team

bioinformatics-workshops@umich.edu
UM BRCF Bioinformatics Core