Set-up DESeq2 analysis - Answer Key

Author

Will Gammerdinger, Noor Sohail

Published

September 5, 2025

Exercise 1

Take a moment and answer the above questions for our VSM cells dataset.

  1. Do you have enough cells to aggregate and do a pseudobulk analysis? Do you have enough power to run statistical tests?

  2. Are there smaller cell states within a celltype that would be lost after aggregating with a pseudobulk approach?

  3. Is there a latent variable that should be included in a design model?

  4. Are there biological replicates that can be used to control for variability in the data?