Dopaplex RNA-seq dataset for "A dopamine-induced coordinated gene expression program regulates neuronal function and cocaine response"

This dataset contains whole-genome RNA sequencing results from rat embryonic striatal neuronal cultures and serves as the basis for characterization of multiplexed CRISPR/dCas9 gene activation of 16 genes induced by dopamine receptor activation. The goal of this experiment was to define the transcriptional response to multiplexed CRISPR-based upregulation of 16 dopamine-induced genes (Tent5b, Junb, Prox1, Nr4a2, Nptx1, Gsx1, Gadd45g, Btg2, Fosb, Nr4a1, Egr4, Fos, Sstr2, Gadd45b, Egr3, & Egr2), together termed "Dopaplex", as compared to a LacZ control sgRNA. This experiment contains 11 biological samples, each of which underwent directional, paired-end PolyA+ RNA-seq on an Illumina Next-seq 500. Samples were treated with Lacz sgRNA or Dopaplex sgRNAs (targeting the 16 genes outlined above), in addition to a dCas9-VPR fusion for CRISPR-based transcriptional activation. Datasets were obtained using RNA-seq from PolyA+ fractions fractions of RNA. Each sample has multiple files, corresponding to different sequencing lanes (e.g., L001, L002, etc) or different reads (e.g., R1, R2).