Current bioinformatics methods to detect changes in gene isoform usage in distinct phenotypes compare the relative expected isoform usage in phenotypes. These statistics model differences in isoform usage in...
Read More »IsoFunc – Functional Annotation of Human Protein-Coding Splice Variant Using Multiple Instance Learning
The vast majority of human multiexon genes undergo alternative splicing and produce a variety of splice variant transcripts and proteins, which can perform different functions. These protein-coding splice variants (PCSVs) greatly increase the functional diversity of proteins. Most functional annotation ...
Read More »RNA-Seq reveals to what extent splice-variant transcripts are translated into protein products
High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has revealed an enormous complexity of alternative splicing (AS) across diverse cell and tissue types. However, it is currently unknown to what extent repertoires of splice-variant transcripts are translated into protein products. Here, University of Toronto ...
Read More »A Comprehensive RNA Sequencing Analysis of the Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Type 2 Transcriptome
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is recognized for its bipartite life cycle with productive replication dependent on coinfection with adenovirus (Ad) and AAV latency being established in the absence of a helper virus. The shift from latent to Ad-dependent AAV replication is ...
Read More »Most Algorithms for Quantifying Full-length mRNA Splice Forms are Inaccurate
Because of the advantages of RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) over microarrays, it is gaining widespread popularity for highly parallel gene expression analysis. For example, RNA-Seq is expected to be able to provide accurate identification and quantification of full-length splice forms. A ...
Read More »Emerging computational approaches that integrate RNA-seq data for predicting the functions of alternatively spliced isoforms
The vast majority of multi-exon genes in humans undergo alternative splicing, which greatly increases the functional diversity of protein species. Predicting functions at the isoform level is essential to further our understanding of developmental abnormalities and cancers, which frequently exhibit ...
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