Full-length isoform sequencing has advanced our knowledge of isoform biology. However, apart from applying full-length isoform sequencing to very few single cells, isoform sequencing has been limited...
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 »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 »51% of non-canonical splice sites are not annotated in GENCODE
Scientists at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile have uncovered the diversity of non-canonical splice sites at the human transcriptome using deep transcriptome profiling. They mapped a total of 3.7 billion human RNA-seq reads and developed a set of stringent ...
Read More »LaSSO, a strategy for genome-wide mapping of intronic lariats and branch-points using RNA-Seq
Both canonical and alternative splicing of RNAs is governed by intronic sequence elements and produces transient lariat structures fastened by branch-points within introns. To map precisely the location of branch-points on a genomic scale, researchers at University College London developed ...
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