Chapter 8 Conducting Research
Coming up with a good research project idea can be an exciting but daunting challenge. We recommend reviewing the available datasets, choosing one to focus on, and trying one of the following approaches.
Approach 1. Identify a pathway that you are interested in researching that is highly expressed in a specific gut/brain region using clusterProfiler.
Approach 2. Start with a gene, group of genes, or pathway that you find interesting from a previous lab or you hypothesize has an important role (e.g. trypsin genes in the gut).
Approach 3. Jump into the literature! Pick a disease your are interested in (e.g. IBD for the gut dataset) and search the literature for human genes that are involved.
