Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is a large class of gene transcripts with regulatory functions discovered in recent years. Many more are expected to be...
Read More »piRNA analysis from small RNA-Seq data
With the increasing number of studies focusing on PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNAs), it is now pertinent to develop efficient tools dedicated towards piRNA analysis. Researchers at the National Institute of...
Read More »Granatum – the user-friendly web tool for single cell RNA sequencing analysis
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a frontier research area that studies genomic events down to the individual cell level, providing unprecedented insights into many biological and medical questions, such as cancer heterogeneity and tumor...
Read More »A survey of software tools for microRNA discovery and characterization using RNA-seq
Since the small RNA-sequencing (sRNA-seq) technology became available, it allowed the discovery of thousands new microRNAs (miRNAs) in humans and many other species, providing new data on these small RNAs (sRNAs) of high biological and translational relevance. MiRNA discovery has ...
Read More »sRNAnalyzer – a flexible and customizable small RNA sequencing data analysis pipeline
Although many tools have been developed to analyze small RNA sequencing (sRNA-Seq) data, it remains challenging to accurately analyze the small RNA population, mainly due to multiple sequence ID assignment caused by short read length. Additional issues in small RNA ...
Read More »LSTrAP – efficiently combining RNA sequencing data into co-expression networks
Since experimental elucidation of gene function is often laborious, various in silico methods have been developed to predict gene function of uncharacterized genes. Since functionally related genes are often expressed in the same tissues, conditions and developmental stages (co-expressed), functional ...
Read More »A protocol to help new RNA-seq users understand the basic steps necessary to analyze an RNA-seq dataset properly
As a revolutionary technology for life sciences, RNA-seq has many applications and the computation pipeline has also many variations. Researchers from the Functional Genomics Center Zurich describe a protocol to perform RNA-seq data analysis where the aim is to identify differentially ...
Read More »ARCHS4: Massive Mining of Publicly Available RNA-seq Data from Human and Mouse
RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) is currently the leading technology for genome-wide transcript quantification. While the volume of RNA-seq data is rapidly increasing, the currently publicly available RNA-seq data is provided mostly in raw form, with small portions processed non-uniformly. This is mainly ...
Read More »Splatter – simulation of single-cell RNA sequencing data
As single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies have rapidly developed, so have analysis methods. Many methods have been tested, developed, and validated using simulated datasets. Unfortunately, current simulations are often poorly documented, their similarity to real data is not demonstrated, or ...
Read More »Arkas – Rapid reproducible RNA-Seq analysis
The recently introduced Kallisto pseudoaligner has radically simplified the quantification of transcripts in RNA-sequencing experiments. Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC offer cloud-scale RNAseq pipelines Arkas-Quantification, which deploys Kallisto for parallel cloud computations, and Arkas-Analysis, which annotates ...
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