Guidelines for experimental design: General considerations and best practices

TrainerIan Sealy

Overview: This session will focus on good experimental design and best practices for zebrafish RNA-seq experiments, including topics like number of replicates, batch effects, QC and data sharing.

Learning outcomes

After this session you will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of experimental design
  • Explain the concepts including sources of variance in an experiment, the number of replicates, and batch effects
  • Identify the benefits of data sharing

Materials: