The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a public repository of gene expression data that hosts more than 7,500 RNA-seq datasets and this number is increasing. Most of these samples are deposited in raw sequencing format which needs to be downloaded and processed. With an aim to transform all these datasets in an analysis-ready format, we are currently processing the available RNA-seq samples of human, mouse, and rat from GEO using an R-based automated pipeline GREP2. This pipeline simultaneously downloads and processes RNA-seq raw sequencing data available in GEO. We demonstrate the results in a web application, GREIN (GEO RNA-seq Experiments Interactive Navigator) using the shiny framework. This interactive and intuitive application allows a user with little or no computational programming background to explore and analyze processed GEO RNA-seq datasets in a point-and-click manner. GREIN provides the flexibility to analyze and create ilincs compliant signatures that can be uploaded to ilincs for further in-depth analysis. In addition, GREIN produces publication-ready graphs and let the user to download all the analysis results. By accumulating the processed GEO RNA-seq datasets in a common platform, we present GREIN as a prominent choice to the practitioner for analyzing GEO RNA-seq datasets.

• Al Mahi, Naim, et al. "GREIN: An interactive web platform for re-analyzing GEO RNA-seq data." Scientific reports 9.1 (2019): 7580; doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43935-8

Ubuntu: follow the instructions to get Docker CE for Ubuntu.

Mac: follow the instructions to install the Stable verion of Docker CE on Mac.

Windows: follow the instructions to install Docker Toolbox on Windows.

To obtain the latest docker image, run the following in your command line:

[sudo] docker pull ucbd2k/grein

Linux users may need to use sudo to run Docker.

To run the container execute the following command:

[sudo] docker run -d -p <an available port>:3838 ucbd2k/grein

Typically one can use port 3838 if not already used by another application. In that case the commad is

[sudo] docker run -d -p 3838:3838 ucbd2k/grein

First make sure that port 3838 is free to use. If not free, you can stop and kill any othe docker containers on this port by

[sudo] docker stop <container ID> && docker rm <container ID>

To know the container ID run this command:

docker ps -a

Before starting GREIN, please download the github repository first. We have put an example dataset (GSE22666) in the data folder. You should keep all the processed datasets with corresponding files (eset.RData, multiqc_report.html, and transcripts.RData) in this folder. You can process GEO RNA-seq daatsets using our GREP2 pipeline. If you want to process data on the fly using GREIN, then you will have to run the GREP2 pipeline in the backend (run GEO_data_processing.R for any new dataset you want to process and change the parameters accordingly) which will grab the GEO accession ID from the user_geo_request folder. GREIN will look for the log file within this directory. After you process the data, you will have to run after_processing.R which will update the datatable used by GREIN.

To start GREIN, open a browser and type in the address bar <Host URL>:<available port as specified>. For example http://localhost:3838 on Mac or Linux systems when 3838 port is used.

Host URL on Ubuntu and Mac is localhost, if accessed locally. On Windows, the IP is shown when Docker is launched by double-clicking the Docker Quickstart Terminal icon on desktop, or it can be obtained from the output of docker-machine ls in the interactive shell window.

Please submit any bug reports, issues, or comments here: https://github.com/uc-bd2k/GREIN/issues