Numerous methods have been developed to analyse RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data, but most rely on the availability of a reference genome, making them unsuitable for non-model organisms. Here researchers from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne present superTranscripts, a substitute for ...
Read More »SEX-DETector – a probabilistic approach to study sex chromosomes in non-model organisms
Researchers from CNRS/Université Lyon have developed a probabilistic framework to infer autosomal and sex-linked genes from RNA-seq data of a cross for any sex chromosome type (XY, ZW, UV). Sex chromosomes (especially the non-recombining and repeat-dense Y, W, U and ...
Read More »Comparative performance of transcriptome assembly methods for non-model organisms
The technological revolution in next-generation sequencing has brought unprecedented opportunities to study any organism of interest at the genomic or transcriptomic level. Transcriptome assembly is a crucial first step for studying the molecular basis of phenotypes of interest using RNA-Sequencing ...
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