Long-read RNA sequencing (lrRNA-seq) produces detailed information about full-length transcripts, including novel and sample-specific isoforms. Furthermore, there is an opportunity to call variants directly...
Read More »scAllele – A versatile tool for the detection and analysis of variants in scRNA-seq
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data contain rich information at the gene, transcript, and nucleotide levels. Most analyses of scRNA-seq...
Read More »Detecting somatic mutations from RNA sequencing data without a matched-normal sample
Detection of somatic point mutations using patients sequencing data has many clinical applications, including the identification of cancer driver genes...
Read More »Finding a suitable library size to call variants in RNA-Seq
RNA sequencing allows the study of both gene expression changes and transcribed mutations, providing a highly effective way to gain insight into cancer biology. When planning the sequencing of...
Read More »New analytical model detects breast cancer mutations in RNA-Seq data
We hope that SCAN-B RNA sequencing will be in clinical use as early as next year, mainly to help in the identification of which breast tumours are...
Read More »AssociVar – detecting mutations based on associations from direct RNA sequencing data
One of the key challenges in the field of genetics is the inference of haplotypes from next generation sequencing data. The MinION Oxford Nanopore...
Read More »Cell lineage inference from SNP and scRNA-Seq data
Several recent studies focus on the inference of developmental and response trajectories from single cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) data. A number of computational methods, often referred to as...
Read More »VaDiR – an integrated approach to variant detection in RNA
Advances in next-generation DNA sequencing technologies are now enabling detailed characterization of sequence variations in cancer genomes. With whole genome sequencing...
Read More »GROM – lightning-fast genome variant detection
Current human whole genome sequencing projects produce massive amounts of data, often creating significant computational challenges. Different approaches have been developed for each type of genome variant and method of its detection, necessitating users to run multiple algorithms to find ...
Read More »Halvade-RNA – a parallel, multi-node RNA-seq variant calling pipeline based on the GATK Best Practices recommendations
Given the current cost-effectiveness of next-generation sequencing, the amount of DNA-seq and RNA-seq data generated is ever increasing. One of the primary objectives of NGS experiments is calling genetic variants. While highly accurate, most variant calling pipelines are not optimized ...
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