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Visualization of RNA-Seq results with Volcano Plot in R

Abstract

The Volcano plot tutorial, introduced volcano plots and showed how they can be generated with the Galaxy Volcano plot tool. In this tutorial we show how you can customise a plot using the R script output from the tool.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How to customise Volcano plot output in R?

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to use R to edit Volcano plot colours, points, labels and categories

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Transcriptomics, interactive-tools

Target audience: Students

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 8

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

  • Advanced R in Galaxy
  • Introduction to Galaxy Analyses
  • Mapping
  • Quality Control
  • R basics in Galaxy
  • RNA Seq Counts to Viz in R
  • RStudio in Galaxy
  • Visualization of RNA-Seq results with Volcano Plot

Learning objectives:

  • Learn how to use R to edit Volcano plot colours, points, labels and categories

Date modified: 2024-06-14

Date published: 2021-06-14

Authors: Maria Doyle

Contributors: Maria Doyle

Scientific topics: Transcriptomics

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