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ArticleScientific reports2017

SeqTU: A Web Server for Identification of Bacterial Transcription Units.

Xin Chen, Wen-Chi Chou, Qin Ma, Ying Xu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Xin ChenCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Wen-Chi ChouBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Qin MaDepartment of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA.
Ying XuCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Broad Institute · USBrookings Institution · USJilin University · CNUniversity of Georgia · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A transcription unit (TU) consists of K ≥ 1consecutive genes on the same strand of a bacterial genome that are transcribed into a single mRNA molecule under certain conditions. Their identification is an essential step in elucidation of transcriptional regulatory networks. We have recently developed a machine-learning method to accurately identify TUs from RNA-seq data, based on two features of the assembled RNA reads: the continuity and stability of RNA-seq coverage across a genomic region. While good performance was achieved by the method on Escherichia coli and Clostridium thermocellum, substantial work is needed to make the program generally applicable to all bacteria, knowing that the program requires organism specific information. A web server, named SeqTU, was developed to automatically identify TUs with given RNA-seq data of any bacterium using a machine-learning approach. The server consists of a number of utility tools, in addition to TU identification, such as data preparation, data quality check and RNA-read mapping. SeqTU provides a user-friendly interface and automated prediction of TUs from given RNA-seq data. The predicted TUs are displayed intuitively using HTML format along with a graphic visualization of the prediction.

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InternetSoftwareTranscription, GeneticBacteriaComputational BiologyMachine LearningSequence Analysis, RNA

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PMID28266571
PMCPMC5339711
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