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ArticleGenome biology2019

Alevin efficiently estimates accurate gene abundances from dscRNA-seq data.

Avi Srivastava, Laraib Malik, Tom Smith, Ian Sudbery, Rob Patro

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Article in Genome biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 166 papers.

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5 authors.

Avi SrivastavaDepartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA.
Laraib MalikDepartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA.
Tom SmithCambridge Centre for Proteomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK.
Ian SudberySheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
Rob PatroDepartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA. rob.patro@cs.stonybrook.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8463-1675

Funding

A Modular Framework for Accurate, Interpretable, and Reproducible Analysis of Long Read RNA-Seq DataR01HG009937 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Michael Isaiah Love, Robert Patro · 2018 to 2026
$2.8M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009937NHGRI NIH HHS R01HG009937
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce alevin, a fast end-to-end pipeline to process droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data, performing cell barcode detection, read mapping, unique molecular identifier (UMI) deduplication, gene count estimation, and cell barcode whitelisting. Alevin's approach to UMI deduplication considers transcript-level constraints on the molecules from which UMIs may have arisen and accounts for both gene-unique reads and reads that multimap between genes. This addresses the inherent bias in existing tools which discard gene-ambiguous reads and improves the accuracy of gene abundance estimates. Alevin is considerably faster, typically eight times, than existing gene quantification approaches, while also using less memory.

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Sequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareAnimalsDNA Barcoding, TaxonomicHumansMiceCellular barcodeQuantificationSingle-cell RNA-seqUMI deduplication

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PMID30917859
PMCPMC6437997

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