RNA was isolated from single mouse blastomeres and sequenced using Illumina. Reads were mapped to the mouse genome using Tophat2 and the RefSeq annotation. Gene counts were calculated using featureCounts. Differential expression analysis was performed using DESeq2 to identify genes changing in expression between time points with an adjusted p-value <0.05 and fold change >2. While the original study's methods were outdated and lacked details, following its overall approach allowed reproducing the analysis and generating visualizations of differentially expressed genes over time.