Misuse of RPKM or TPM normalization when comparing across samples and sequencing protocols

S Zhao, Z Ye, R Stanton - Rna, 2020 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
In recent years, RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful technology for
transcriptome profiling. For a given gene, the number of mapped reads is not only …

Circulating miRNA analysis for cancer diagnostics and therapy

L Valihrach, P Androvic, M Kubista - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Successful treatment of cancer depends on early diagnosis and effective monitoring of
patients' response to therapy. Traditional tools based on tumor biopsies lack the sensitivity …

[HTML][HTML] Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes

E Rheinbay, MM Nielsen, F Abascal, JA Wala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The discovery of drivers of cancer has traditionally focused on protein-coding genes,,–. Here
we present analyses of driver point mutations and structural variants in non-coding regions …

[HTML][HTML] Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes

K Shafin, T Pesout, R Lorig-Roach, M Haukness… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
De novo assembly of a human genome using nanopore long-read sequences has been
reported, but it used more than 150,000 CPU hours and weeks of wall-clock time. To enable …

[HTML][HTML] dbNSFP v4: a comprehensive database of transcript-specific functional predictions and annotations for human nonsynonymous and splice-site SNVs

X Liu, C Li, C Mou, Y Dong, Y Tu - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Whole exome sequencing has been increasingly used in human disease studies.
Prioritization based on appropriate functional annotations has been used as an …

[HTML][HTML] CircAtlas: an integrated resource of one million highly accurate circular RNAs from 1070 vertebrate transcriptomes

W Wu, P Ji, F Zhao - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Existing circular RNA (circRNA) databases have become essential for transcriptomics.
However, most are unsuitable for mining in-depth information for candidate circRNA …

A developmental landscape of 3D-cultured human pre-gastrulation embryos

L Xiang, Y Yin, Y Zheng, Y Ma, Y Li, Z Zhao, J Guo, Z Ai… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Our understanding of how human embryos develop before gastrulation, including spatial
self-organization and cell type ontogeny, remains limited by available two-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] A quantitative proteome map of the human body

L Jiang, M Wang, S Lin, R Jian, X Li, J Chan, G Dong… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Determining protein levels in each tissue and how they compare with RNA levels is
important for understanding human biology and disease as well as regulatory processes …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer

PCAWG Transcriptome Core Group Calabrese Claudia … - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Transcript alterations often result from somatic changes in cancer genomes. Various forms of
RNA alterations have been described in cancer, including overexpression, altered splicing …

Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale

X Li, Z Li, H Zhou, SM Gaynor, Y Liu, H Chen, R Sun… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies have enabled the analysis of rare variants
(RVs) associated with complex phenotypes. Commonly used RV association tests have …