BBKNN: fast batch alignment of single cell transcriptomes

K Polański, MD Young, Z Miao, KB Meyer… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Increasing numbers of large scale single cell RNA-Seq projects are leading to a
data explosion, which can only be fully exploited through data integration. A number of …

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

A Dobin, CA Davis, F Schlesinger, J Drenkow… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Accurate alignment of high-throughput RNA-seq data is a challenging and yet
unsolved problem because of the non-contiguous transcript structure, relatively short read …

Benchmarking strategies for cross-species integration of single-cell RNA sequencing data

Y Song, Z Miao, A Brazma, I Papatheodorou - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The growing number of available single-cell gene expression datasets from different species
creates opportunities to explore evolutionary relationships between cell types across …

Evaluation of STAR and Kallisto on single cell RNA-Seq data alignment

Y Du, Q Huang, C Arisdakessian… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Alignment of scRNA-Seq data are the first and one of the most critical steps of the scRNA-
Seq analysis workflow, and thus the choice of proper aligners is of paramount importance …

RapMap: a rapid, sensitive and accurate tool for mapping RNA-seq reads to transcriptomes

A Srivastava, H Sarkar, N Gupta, R Patro - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The alignment of sequencing reads to a transcriptome is a common and
important step in many RNA-seq analysis tasks. When aligning RNA-seq reads directly to a …

Efficient and precise single-cell reference atlas mapping with Symphony

JB Kang, A Nathan, K Weinand, F Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in single-cell technologies and integration algorithms make it possible to
construct comprehensive reference atlases encompassing many donors, studies, disease …

STARsolo: accurate, fast and versatile mapping/quantification of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq data

B Kaminow, D Yunusov, A Dobin - Biorxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
We present STARsolo, a comprehensive turnkey solution for quantifying gene expression in
single-cell/nucleus RNA-seq data, built into RNA-seq aligner STAR. Using simulated data …

Systematic evaluation of spliced alignment programs for RNA-seq data

PG Engström, T Steijger, B Sipos, GR Grant, A Kahles… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
High-throughput RNA sequencing is an increasingly accessible method for studying gene
structure and activity on a genome-wide scale. A critical step in RNA-seq data analysis is the …

Benchmarking atlas-level data integration in single-cell genomics

MD Luecken, M Büttner, K Chaichoompu, A Danese… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell atlases often include samples that span locations, laboratories and conditions,
leading to complex, nested batch effects in data. Thus, joint analysis of atlas datasets …

Simulation-based comprehensive benchmarking of RNA-seq aligners

G Baruzzo, KE Hayer, EJ Kim, B Di Camillo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Alignment is the first step in most RNA-seq analysis pipelines, and the accuracy of
downstream analyses depends heavily on it. Unlike most steps in the pipeline, alignment is …