Upstream analysis of alternative splicing: a review of computational approaches to predict context-dependent splicing factors

F Carazo, JP Romero, A Rubio - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) has shown to play a pivotal role in the development of diseases,
including cancer. Specifically, all the hallmarks of cancer (angiogenesis, cell immortality …

Discovery of novel splice forms and functional analysis of cancer‐specific alternative splicing in human expressed sequences

Q Xu, C Lee - Nucleic acids research, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We report here a genome‐wide analysis of alternative splicing in 2 million human expressed
sequence tags (ESTs), to identify splice forms that are up‐regulated in tumors relative to …

Bayesian prediction of tissue-regulated splicing using RNA sequence and cellular context

HY Xiong, Y Barash, BJ Frey - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Alternative splicing is a major contributor to cellular diversity in mammalian
tissues and relates to many human diseases. An important goal in understanding this …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretation of mRNA splicing mutations in genetic disease: review of the literature and guidelines for information-theoretical analysis

N Caminsky, EJ Mucaki, PK Rogan - F1000Research, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The interpretation of genomic variants has become one of the paramount challenges in the
post-genome sequencing era. In this review we summarize nearly 20 years of research on …

Combinations of histone modifications mark exon inclusion levels

S Enroth, S Bornelöv, C Wadelius, J Komorowski - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Splicing is a complex process regulated by sequence at the classical splice sites and other
motifs in exons and introns with an enhancing or silencing effect. In addition, specific histone …

CADD-Splice—improving genome-wide variant effect prediction using deep learning-derived splice scores

P Rentzsch, M Schubach, J Shendure, M Kircher - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Splicing of genomic exons into mRNAs is a critical prerequisite for the accurate
synthesis of human proteins. Genetic variants impacting splicing underlie a substantial …

Alterations of pre‐mRNA splicing in cancer

Z Kalnina, P Zayakin, K Silin̨a… - Genes, Chromosomes …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Recent genomewide analyses of alternative splicing (AS) indicate that up to 70% of human
genes may have alternative splice forms, suggesting that AS together with various …

ASCancer Atlas: a comprehensive knowledgebase of alternative splicing in human cancers

S Wu, Y Huang, M Zhang, Z Gong, G Wang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing (AS) is a fundamental process that governs almost all aspects of cellular
functions, and dysregulation in this process has been implicated in tumor initiation …

ASpedia: a comprehensive encyclopedia of human alternative splicing

D Hyung, J Kim, SY Cho, C Park - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Alternative splicing confers the human genome complexity by increasing the diversity of
expressed mRNAs. Hundreds or thousands of splicing regions have been identified through …

Sequence information for the splicing of human pre-mRNA identified by support vector machine classification

XHF Zhang, KA Heller, I Hefter, CS Leslie… - Genome …, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
Vertebrate pre-mRNA transcripts contain many sequences that resemble splice sites on the
basis of agreement to the consensus, yet these more numerous false splice sites are usually …