Comprehensively identifying gene expression in both transcriptomic and proteomic levels of one tissue is a prerequisite for a deeper understanding of its biological functions. Alternative splicing and RNA-editing, two main forms of transcriptional processing, play important roles in transcriptome and ...
Read More »LaSSO, a strategy for genome-wide mapping of intronic lariats and branch-points using RNA-Seq
Both canonical and alternative splicing of RNAs is governed by intronic sequence elements and produces transient lariat structures fastened by branch-points within introns. To map precisely the location of branch-points on a genomic scale, researchers at University College London developed ...
Read More »Improved Transcript Isoform Discovery using ORF Graphs
High-throughput sequencing of RNA in vivo facilitates many applications, not the least of which is the cataloging of variant splice isoforms of protein-coding messenger RNAs. While many solutions have been proposed for reconstructing putative isoforms from deep sequencing data, these ...
Read More »spliceR: an R package for classification of alternative splicing and prediction of coding potential from RNA-seq data
RNA-seq data is currently underutilized, in part because it is difficult to predict the functional impact of alternate transcription events. Recent software improvements in full-length transcript deconvolution prompted researchers from the University of Copenhagen to develop spliceR, an R package ...
Read More »Benchmarks of the read aligner segemehl in comparison with other state-of-the-art methods
Next generation sequencing has become an important tool in molecular biology. Various protocols to investigate genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic features across virtually all species and tissues have been devised. For most of these experiments, one of the first crucial steps ...
Read More »Veridical – Validation of predicted mRNA splicing mutations using high-throughput transcriptome data
Interpretation of variants present in complete genomes or exomes reveals numerous sequence changes, only a fraction of which are likely to be pathogenic. Mutations have been traditionally inferred from allele frequencies and inheritance patterns in such data. Variants predicted to ...
Read More »Methods for Analysis of RNA-Seq Datasets to Study Alternative Splicing
Alternative splicing is an important gene regulatory mechanism that dramatically increases the complexity of the proteome. However, how alternative splicing is regulated and how transcription and splicing are coordinated are still poorly understood, and functions of transcript isoforms have been ...
Read More »FineSplice – enhanced splice junction detection and quantification
Alternative splicing is the main mechanism governing protein diversity. The recent developments in RNA-Seq technology have enabled the study of the global impact and regulation of this biological process. However, the lack of standardized protocols constitutes a major bottleneck in ...
Read More »Methods to study splicing from high-throughput RNA sequencing data
The development of novel high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods for RNA (RNA-Seq) has provided a very powerful mean to study splicing under multiple conditions at unprecedented depth. However, the complexity of the information to be analyzed has turned this into a ...
Read More »SeqGSEA: a Bioconductor package for gene set enrichment analysis of RNA-Seq data integrating differential expression and splicing
SeqGSEA is an open-source Bioconductor package, for the functional integration of differential expression and splicing analysis in RNA-Seq data. SeqGSEA implements an analysis pipeline which first computes differential splicing (DS) and differential expression (DE) scores, followed by integrating them into ...
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