Application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods for transcriptome analysis (RNA-seq) has become increasingly accessible in recent years and are of great interest to many biological disciplines including, eg, evolutionary biology, ecology, biomedicine, and computational biology. Although virtually any research group ...
Read More »The choice of a gene model has a dramatic effect on both gene quantification and differential analysis
RNA-Seq has become increasingly popular in transcriptome profiling. One aspect of transcriptome research is to quantify the expression levels of genomic elements, such as genes, their transcripts and exons. Acquiring a transcriptome expression profile requires genomic elements to be defined ...
Read More »Annocript – a flexible pipeline for the annotation of transcriptomes also able to identify putative long noncoding RNAs
The eukaryotic transcriptome is composed of thousands of coding and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). However, we lack a software platform to identify both RNA classes in a given transcriptome. Here researchers from the Anton Dohrn – Zoological Station introduce Annocript, ...
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We asked: What is your major application for RNA-Seq? Thanks to everyone who participated! (64 respondents) Check out the latest poll question in the sidebar.
Read More »AStalavista – Analysis of Alternative Splicing Events in Custom Gene Datasets
Alternative splicing (AS) is a eukaryotic principle to derive more than one RNA product from transcribed genes by removing distinct subsets of introns from a premature polymer. We know today that this process is highly regulated and makes up a ...
Read More »QuasR – Quantification and annotation of short reads in R
QuasR is a package for the integrated analysis of high-throughput sequencing data in R, covering all steps from read preprocessing, alignment and quality control to quantification. QuasR supports different experiment types (including RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and Bis-seq) and analysis variants (e.g. ...
Read More »FlaiMapper – computational annotation of small ncRNA derived fragments using RNA-seq high throughput data
Recent discoveries show that most types of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) such as miRNAs, snoRNAs and tRNAs get further processed into putatively active smaller RNA species. Their roles, genetic profiles and underlying processing mechanisms are only partially understood. To find ...
Read More »Rcount – simple and flexible RNA-Seq read counting
Analysis of differential gene expression by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is frequently done using feature counts, i.e. the number of reads mapping to a gene. However, commonly used count algorithms (e.g. HTSeq) do not address the problem of reads aligning with ...
Read More »Computer-assisted annotation of small RNA transcriptomes
Small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs) are widely expressed in the cell of almost all known species. Most sncRNAs appear to have regulatory roles, ranging from facilitating RNA production and modifications (e.g., snoRNAs) to control of mRNA stability and translational efficiency (e.g., ...
Read More »RNA-Rocket: An RNA-Seq Analysis Resource for Infectious Disease Research
RNA-Seq is a method for profiling transcription using high-throughput sequencing and is an important component of many research projects that wish to study transcript isoforms, condition specific expression, and transcriptional structure. The methods, tools, and technologies employed to perform RNA-Seq ...
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