This first box determines which populations are seen when viewing individual genes and heat maps. We'll select all populations to begin.

Note all populations have been selected. Each box is checked and the corresponding hippocampal region is filled.

Let's begin our analysis by examining transcriptional differences between dorsal and ventral CA3 populations.

We'll select dorsal CA3 pyramidal cells.

We'll compare to ventral CA3 pyramidal cells.

We'll select thresholding values to guide exploratory analysis.

We'll search for genes that are enriched at least 25 fold.

We'll require expressed genes to be at least 10 FPKM.

We'll also require genes to be differentially expressed.

We'll set a threshold of FDR=0.05 for differential expression.

We'll search for genes obeying the selected criteria and highlight them on a scatterplot.

After a short load time, the scatterplot for the two transcriptomes is shown, and highlighted in red are genes that meet the supplied search criteria.

Genes matching the supplied search criteria can be investigated more in-depth in a heat map.

Genes meeting the selected criteria are shown in the heatmap. Note that expression across all populations is shown.

Let's restrict the visualized populations to CA3 pyramidal cells only, which we used in the initial search.

Note now only dorsal and ventral CA3 pyramidal cell data will be shown.

Refresh the graph

Now only the CA3 pyramidal cell populations are shown. Note that the color in the heatmap is dominated by the highest expressing genes.

We'll set normalized expression to view each gene normalized to its maximum value.

We'll also view replicate reproducibility.

Let's refresh the graph again.

Note now we can see the enriched genes solely in the CA3 populations.

Let's investigate one of these genes, Hrh3, more closely.

Clicking on Hrh3 in the heatmap produces a barplot view of the individual gene.

We can always return to the previous heatmap by clicking on the appropriate tab.

Or the whole transcriptome analysis.

Thanks for joining us on this tour. Now, choose your dataset and begin exploring gene expression in the hippocampus!