Advances and challenges in metatranscriptomic analysis

M Shakya, CC Lo, PSG Chain - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Sequencing-based analyses of microbiomes have traditionally focused on addressing the
question of community membership and profiling taxonomic abundance through amplicon …

A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

A Conesa, P Madrigal, S Tarazona, D Gomez-Cabrero… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single
analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data …

Transcriptome assembly from long-read RNA-seq alignments with StringTie2

S Kovaka, AV Zimin, GM Pertea, R Razaghi… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
RNA sequencing using the latest single-molecule sequencing instruments produces reads
that are thousands of nucleotides long. The ability to assemble these long reads can greatly …

Accuracy assessment of fusion transcript detection via read-mapping and de novo fusion transcript assembly-based methods

BJ Haas, A Dobin, B Li, N Stransky, N Pochet, A Regev - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Accurate fusion transcript detection is essential for comprehensive
characterization of cancer transcriptomes. Over the last decade, multiple bioinformatic tools …

rnaSPAdes: a de novo transcriptome assembler and its application to RNA-Seq data

E Bushmanova, D Antipov, A Lapidus… - GigaScience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background The possibility of generating large RNA-sequencing datasets has led to
development of various reference-based and de novo transcriptome assemblers with their …

Discovery and engineering of colchicine alkaloid biosynthesis

RS Nett, W Lau, ES Sattely - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Few complete pathways have been established for the biosynthesis of medicinal
compounds from plants. Accordingly, many plant-derived therapeutics are isolated directly …

Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

M Pertea, D Kim, GM Pertea, JT Leek, SL Salzberg - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing of mRNA (RNA-seq) has become the standard method for
measuring and comparing the levels of gene expression in a wide variety of species and …

A tissue-mapped axolotl de novo transcriptome enables identification of limb regeneration factors

DM Bryant, K Johnson, T DiTommaso, T Tickle… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Mammals have extremely limited regenerative capabilities; however, axolotls are profoundly
regenerative and can replace entire limbs. The mechanisms underlying limb regeneration …

Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization

MK Rich, N Vigneron, C Libourel, J Keller, L Xue… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) improves plant nutrition in most land
plants, and its contribution to the colonization of land by plants has been hypothesized …

[PDF][PDF] A simple guide to de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation

V Raghavan, L Kraft, F Mesny… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A transcriptome constructed from short-read RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is an easily
attainable proxy catalog of protein-coding genes when genome assembly is unnecessary …