Depth of coverage calculation is an important and computationally intensive preprocessing step in a variety of next-generation sequencing pipelines, including the analysis of RNA-sequencing data, detection of copy number variants, or quality control...
Read More »miRPursuit – a pipeline for automated analyses of small RNAs in model and nonmodel plants
Researchers from the Institute of Experimental Biology and Technology, Portugal introduce miRPursuit, a pipeline developed for running end-to-end analyses of high-throughput small RNA...
Read More »IRcall and IRclassifier – two methods for flexible detection of intron retention events from RNA-Seq data
The emergence of next-generation RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) provides tremendous opportunities for researchers to analyze alternative splicing on a genome-wide scale. However, accurate detection of intron retention (IR) events from RNA-Seq data has remained an unresolved challenge in next-generation sequencing (NGS) ...
Read More »An Extensive Evaluation of Read Trimming Effects on Illumina NGS Data Analysis
Next Generation Sequencing is having an extremely strong impact in biological and medical research and diagnostics, with applications ranging from gene expression quantification to genotyping and genome reconstruction. Sequencing data is often provided as raw reads which are processed prior ...
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