Although often seen as a cosmetic condition, hair loss is a relevant social issue associated with increased distress, diminished self-esteem, and psychological effects. With millions of people affected by hair loss, there is a lack of treatments to prevent or treat this condition. However, the Terskikh laboratory has developed a new strategy for the derivation of hair-inducing dermal papilla stem cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells. To aid in advancing this methodology, the senior design team has created a bioinformatic framework to analyze RNA sequencing data from iPSC-derived dermal papillae by comparing it to data from human dermal papillae. The goal of the tool is to identify the biochemical and regulational differences between the iPSC-derived dermal papillae and the human dermal papillae to increase the efficiency of culturing the stem cell grown hair.