Project description:Purpose: Perform RNA-seq study on infectious bovine endometrial tissues to reveal important genes and biological pathways regulating uterine physiology following uterine infections Methods:RNA sequencings were done using Illumina platform. Single-end reads in the FASTQ format were explored using FastQC, low-quality reads were trimmed from both 3’ and 5’ ends until a base pair of Phred quality score of 30 (99.9% accurate) or greater was found, reads having a mean quality score less than 30 and length below 30 nucleotides were filtered out. Cleaned reads were aligned against the bovine reference genome (Bos_taurus.ARS-UCD1.2) using HiSAT2. The resulting SAM files were sorted, converted to BAM files using SAMtools. Read counts mapped to bovine gene models were generated using htseq-count script from HTSeq package. Bioconductor DESeq2 was used to get the differentially expressed genes among infectious vs normal uterine tract groups Conclusions: The study demonstrated that uterine infections altered several genes and pathways related to inflammatory response, immune response, uterine physiology, uterine enviroment and fertility in the intercaruncular region of bovine endometrium.