Phase 4 — Single-cell RNA-seq
Module 29

Differential Expression in scRNA-seq

Your DESeq2 knowledge transfers here. The pseudo-bulk approach — aggregate cells per sample per cluster, then run DESeq2 — is the statistically correct method. Wilcoxon per-cluster testing is exploratory only.

Week 38Timeline
~7 hrsStudy time
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What you'll learn

Topics covered in this module

Pseudo-bulk DE
muscat package
DESeq2 on sc data
Wilcoxon vs pseudo-bulk
Multi-condition comparison

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