Updating README

Author: davismcc

README.md

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-# scater_tutorials_open_data
-A set of tutorials using the scater package to QC publicly available single-cell expression data sets
+# `scater` tutorials with open-access data
+
+A set of tutorials using the scater package to QC publicly available
+single-cell expression data sets
+
+## Do it yourself
+
+Clone this repository to access analyses of open-access single-cell
+expression data in R Markdown format so that you can experience the
+utility of `scater` and prepare single-cell expression datasets for
+your own exploration.
+
+Navigate to your favourite directory and clone:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/davismcc/scater_tutorials_open_data.git
+```
+
+Or you can download the zipped version of the repository from this
+page.
+
+
+## See what it looks like
+
+Check out the results of the analyses in these HTML reports produced
+with R Markdown showing code and results.
+
+* Analysis of
+  [Zeisel et al, 2015](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6226/1138)
+  data can be seen [here](). Kudos to the authors of that study who
+  have made their data available at the
+  [Linnarsson Lab website](http://linnarssonlab.org/blobs/cortex/).
+  * More to follow...
+
+Davis McCarthy, February 2016