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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2017

Rail-RNA: scalable analysis of RNA-seq splicing and coverage.

Abhinav Nellore, Leonardo Collado-Torres, Andrew E Jaffe, José Alquicira-Hernández, Christopher Wilks, Jacob Pritt, James Morton, Jeffrey T Leek, Ben Langmead

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Abhinav NelloreDepartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Leonardo Collado-TorresDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Andrew E JaffeDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
José Alquicira-HernándezDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Christopher WilksDepartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Jacob PrittDepartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
James MortonDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Jeffrey T LeekDepartment of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Ben LangmeadDepartment of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

Funding

Institute for Clinical and Translational ResearchUL1TR001079 · NCATS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI FORD, DANIEL ERNEST · 2013 to 2017
$60.1M
Statistical models for biological and technical variation in RNA sequencingR01GM105705 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LEEK, JEFFREY T. · 2013 to 2017
$1.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001079NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationRNA sequencing (RNA-seq) experiments now span hundreds to thousands of samples. Current spliced alignment software is designed to analyze each sample separately. Consequently, no information is gained from analyzing multiple samples together, and it requires extra work to obtain analysis products that incorporate data from across samples.

resultsWe describe Rail-RNA, a cloud-enabled spliced aligner that analyzes many samples at once. Rail-RNA eliminates redundant work across samples, making it more efficient as samples are added. For many samples, Rail-RNA is more accurate than annotation-assisted aligners. We use Rail-RNA to align 667 RNA-seq samples from the GEUVADIS project on Amazon Web Services in under 16 h for US$0.91 per sample. Rail-RNA outputs alignments in SAM/BAM format; but it also outputs (i) base-level coverage bigWigs for each sample; (ii) coverage bigWigs encoding normalized mean and median coverages at each base across samples analyzed; and (iii) exon-exon splice junctions and indels (features) in columnar formats that juxtapose coverages in samples in which a given feature is found. Supplementary outputs are ready for use with downstream packages for reproducible statistical analysis. We use Rail-RNA to identify expressed regions in the GEUVADIS samples and show that both annotated and unannotated (novel) expressed regions exhibit consistent patterns of variation across populations and with respect to known confounding variables. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Rail-RNA is open-source software available at http://rail.bio. CONTACTS: anellore@gmail.com or langmea@cs.jhu.edu. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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RNA SplicingSoftwareExonsGene Expression ProfilingSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNA

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PMID27592709
PMCPMC5860083

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