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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2012

Oases: robust de novo RNA-seq assembly across the dynamic range of expression levels.

Marcel H Schulz, Daniel R Zerbino, Martin Vingron, Ewan Birney

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 772 papers.

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4 authors.

Marcel H SchulzDepartment of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
Daniel R Zerbino
Martin Vingron
Ewan Birney

Funding

Integrated human genome annotation: generation of a reference gene setU54HG004555 · NHGRI · SANGER INSTITUTE · PI HUBBARD, TIMOTHY JOHN · 2007 to 2012
$11.2M
The UCSC ENCODE Data Coordination CenterU41HG004568 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI KENT, WILLIAM JAMES · 2007 to 2011
$7.7M
EDAC: ENCODE Data Analysis CenterU01HG004695 · NHGRI · EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY · PI BIRNEY, EWAN · 2008 to 2012
$6.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS 1U01HG004695-01NHGRI NIH HHS 1U41HG004568-01NHGRI NIH HHS 1U54HG004555-01NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG004695NHGRI NIH HHS U41 HG004568NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004555
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Abstract

motivationHigh-throughput sequencing has made the analysis of new model organisms more affordable. Although assembling a new genome can still be costly and difficult, it is possible to use RNA-seq to sequence mRNA. In the absence of a known genome, it is necessary to assemble these sequences de novo, taking into account possible alternative isoforms and the dynamic range of expression values.

resultsWe present a software package named Oases designed to heuristically assemble RNA-seq reads in the absence of a reference genome, across a broad spectrum of expression values and in presence of alternative isoforms. It achieves this by using an array of hash lengths, a dynamic filtering of noise, a robust resolution of alternative splicing events and the efficient merging of multiple assemblies. It was tested on human and mouse RNA-seq data and is shown to improve significantly on the transABySS and Trinity de novo transcriptome assemblers. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Oases is freely available under the GPL license at www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/oases/.

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Gene Expression ProfilingSoftwareAlgorithmsAlternative SplicingAnimalsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMiceRNA, MessengerSequence Analysis, RNARNA, Messenger

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PMID22368243
PMCPMC3324515

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