>>14309346If you want to become more familiar with the nuts and bolts of commonly used algorithms in bioinformatics, run through some Rosalind exercises. It's not strictly necessary, but it's good to know what's happening to your data.
https://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/You'll likely be performing some differential expression analysis, so this will involve trimming and mapping/assembling your reads and then mapping reads back to your HERV database. Find some papers that look at expression data and HERVs and try and walk through what they did. You may need access to a decent computer depending on the size/complexity of your dataset.
