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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2014

BlockClust: efficient clustering and classification of non-coding RNAs from short read RNA-seq profiles.

Pavankumar Videm, Dominic Rose, Fabrizio Costa, Rolf Backofen

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pavankumar VidemBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
Dominic RoseBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, DenmarkBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
Fabrizio CostaBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
Rolf BackofenBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, DenmarkBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, DenmarkBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, DenmarkBioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL), Munich, Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS), Centre for Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Germany and Centre for Non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
University of Freiburg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryNon-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play a vital role in many cellular processes such as RNA splicing, translation, gene regulation. However the vast majority of ncRNAs still have no functional annotation. One prominent approach for putative function assignment is clustering of transcripts according to sequence and secondary structure. However sequence information is changed by post-transcriptional modifications, and secondary structure is only a proxy for the true 3D conformation of the RNA polymer. A different type of information that does not suffer from these issues and that can be used for the detection of RNA classes, is the pattern of processing and its traces in small RNA-seq reads data. Here we introduce BlockClust, an efficient approach to detect transcripts with similar processing patterns. We propose a novel way to encode expression profiles in compact discrete structures, which can then be processed using fast graph-kernel techniques. We perform both unsupervised clustering and develop family specific discriminative models; finally we show how the proposed approach is scalable, accurate and robust across different organisms, tissues and cell lines. AVAILABILITY: The whole BlockClust galaxy workflow including all tool dependencies is available at http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/rnateam/blockclust_workflow.

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Artificial IntelligenceCluster AnalysisGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationRNA, Small UntranslatedSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareRNA, Small Untranslated

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PMID24931994
PMCPMC4058930
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