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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2017

SPRINT: an SNP-free toolkit for identifying RNA editing sites.

Feng Zhang, Yulan Lu, Sijia Yan, Qinghe Xing, Weidong Tian

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Feng ZhangState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development.
Yulan LuThe Molecular Genetic Diagnosis Center, Shanghai Key Lab of Birth Defect, Translational Medicine Research Center of Children Development and Diseases, Pediatrics Research Institute.
Sijia YanChildren's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China.
Qinghe XingChildren's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China.
Weidong TianState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationRNA editing generates post-transcriptional sequence alterations. Detection of RNA editing sites (RESs) typically requires the filtering of SNVs called from RNA-seq data using an SNP database, an obstacle that is difficult to overcome for most organisms.

resultsHere, we present a novel method named SPRINT that identifies RESs without the need to filter out SNPs. SPRINT also integrates the detection of hyper RESs from remapped reads, and has been fully automated to any RNA-seq data with reference genome sequence available. We have rigorously validated SPRINT's effectiveness in detecting RESs using RNA-seq data of samples in which genes encoding RNA editing enzymes are knock down or over-expressed, and have also demonstrated its superiority over current methods. We have applied SPRINT to investigate RNA editing across tissues and species, and also in the development of mouse embryonic central nervous system. A web resource (http://sprint.tianlab.cn) of RESs identified by SPRINT has been constructed. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The software and related data are available at http://sprint.tianlab.cn. CONTACT: weidong.tian@fudan.edu.cn. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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RNA EditingSoftwareAnimalsDatabases, GeneticGenomeMiceReproducibility of ResultsRNASequence Analysis, RNARNA

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PMCPMC5870768

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