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Tissue-Specific Genotype Expression Project using the GTEx Dataset

Team members: Nico Chaves, Noam Weinberger and Junjie (Jason) Zhu

We began this project in Spring 2016 as a course project for Stanford CS 341 (Project in Mining Massive Datasets).

Structure

/data: includes metadata of processed data and example datasets; full datasets are stored on the server

/preprocessing: includes python scripts that used to process the expression data downloaded from GTExPortal

/ipython_notebook: includes ipython notebooks used to display main results of this project in an interactive fashion

Instructions

git pull git add --all git commit -m "MESSAGE" git push

Data Preprocessing

We downloaded the Transcript RPKM file (GTEx_Analysis_v6_RNA-seq_Flux1.6_transcript_rpkm.txt.gz) and meta-information (GTEx_Data_V6_Annotations_SampleAttributesDS.txt) from GTExPortal where the former includes expression values and the latter includes information about donor IDs and tissue types of each sample. Then we filtered out transcripts according to the following procedure:

  1. Select transcripts that are mapped to genes in the GO database (list downloaded from Ensembl Biomart)
  2. Select top 10,000 transcripts with the highest variance across all samples in this dataset
Downloaded Transcript RPKM After GO Term Filter After Variance Filter
Number of Variables 195,747 67,344 10,000

TODO: Write usage instructions

Contributing

  1. Fork it!
  2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
  3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
  4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
  5. Submit a pull request :D

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