Science_Advances_2020

This page contains R and Python code for analysis of single-nucleus RNA-seq (snRNA-seq) datasets from "A dopamine-induced gene expression signature regulates neuronal function and cocaine response".

Study design

snRNA-seq datasets generated here were obtained from two experimental preparations:

  1. The rat nucleus accumbens (NAc), with samples taken from four experimental groups:
    *Male adult rats, 1hr following saline injection
    *Male adult rats, 1hr following cocaine injection (20mg/kg, I.P.)
    *Female adult rats, 1hr following saline injection
    *Female adult rats, 1hr following cocaine injection (20mg/kg, I.P.)

  2. Primary striatal neurons (mixed from male and female E18 rat brains and cultured to DIV11) from four experimental groups:
    *Vehicle (media alone, 1hr)
    *Dopamine (50µM, 1hr)
    *SKF-38393 (1µM, 1hr)
    *Potassium chloride (25mM, 1hr)

Datasets in this manuscript used the 10X Genomics Chromium Single Cell 3’ library construction kit to generate barcoded libraries for Illumina sequencing. For each dataset, we provide R Markdown and Word documents containing analysis parameters and code, as well as Python notebooks for generation of enhanced experimental signal (EES) values from the MELD package (Krishnaswamy Lab).

Citation

Savell, K.E., Tuscher, J.J., Zipperly, M.E., Duke, C.G., Phillips III, R.A.*, Bauman, A.J., Thukral, S., Sultan, F.A., Goska, N.A., Ianov, L., & Day, J.J. (2020). A dopamine-induced gene expression signature regulates neuronal function and cocaine response. Science Advances 6(26): eaba4221. Link

Links

All Day lab resources may be found at the Day Lab website
Ratlas Shiny App
Published manuscript
BioRxiv preprint

Raw data

Primary striatal neuron culture snRNA-seq - GEO accession GSE137759
Adult NAc snRNA-seq - GEO accession GSE137763

Source code

Manifold Enhancement of Latent Dimensions (MELD)
Seurat v3