Despite its popularity, characterization of subpopulations with transcript abundance is subject to significant amount of noise. Researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center propose to use effective and expressed nucleotide variations (eeSNVs) from scRNA-seq as alternative features for tumor subpopulation ...
Read More »JACUSA – site-specific identification of RNA editing events from replicate sequencing data
RNA editing is a co-transcriptional modification that increases the molecular diversity, alters secondary structure and protein coding sequences by changing the sequence of transcripts. The most common RNA editing modification is the single base substitution (A→I) that is catalyzed by ...
Read More »SNP calling from RNA-seq data without a reference genome
SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) are genetic markers whose precise identification is a prerequisite for association studies. Methods to identify them are currently well developed for model species, but rely on the availability of a (good) reference genome, and therefore cannot ...
Read More »SNV-DA – Multivariate models from RNA-Seq SNVs yield candidate molecular targets for biomarker discovery
It has recently been shown that significant and accurate single nucleotide variants (SNVs) can be reliably called from RNA-Seq data. These may provide another source of features for multivariate predictive modeling of disease phenotype for the prioritization of candidate biomarkers. ...
Read More »IntSplice – prediction of the splicing consequences of intronic single-nucleotide variations in the human genome
Precise spatiotemporal regulation of splicing is mediated by splicing cis-elements on pre-mRNA. Single-nucleotide variations (SNVs) affecting intronic cis-elements possibly compromise splicing, but no efficient tool has been available to identify them. Following an effect-size analysis of each intronic nucleotide on ...
Read More »Single-cell Transcriptogenomics
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have developed an integrative method, termed Single-Cell Transcriptogenomics (SCTG), in which whole exome sequencing and RNA-seq is performed concurrently on single cells. This methodology enables one to track germline and somatic variants ...
Read More »SNPlice – identify cis-acting, splice-modulating variants from RNA-seq datasets
The growing recognition of the importance of splicing in eukaryotes, together with rapidly accumulating RNA-sequencing data, demand robust high-throughput approaches, which efficiently analyze experimentally derived whole-transcriptome splice profiles. Researchers from The George Washington University have developed a computational approach, called ...
Read More »eSNV-detect – a computational system to identify expressed single nucleotide variants from transcriptome sequencing data
Rapid development of next generation sequencing technology has enabled the identification of genomic alterations from short sequencing reads. There are a number of software pipelines available for calling single nucleotide variants from genomic DNA but, no comprehensive pipelines to identify, ...
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