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ArticleNature communications2020

CaSpER identifies and visualizes CNV events by integrative analysis of single-cell or bulk RNA-sequencing data.

Akdes Serin Harmanci, Arif O Harmanci, Xiaobo Zhou

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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110 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Akdes Serin HarmanciCenter for Computational Systems Medicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Arif O HarmanciCenter for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Xiaobo ZhouCenter for Computational Systems Medicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. Xiaobo.Zhou@uth.tmc.edu.

Funding

Systems Modeling Guided Bone regenerationU01AR069395 · NIAMS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI YANG, YUNZHI, ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2016 to 2021
$3.4M
Multiscale Resolution and Deep Network Approaches for Deconvolving Different Cell Types in Bulk Tumor using Single-cell Sequencing Data (scDEC)R01CA241930 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Multiscale Modeling for Treatment Discovery in Duchenne Muscular DystrophyU01AR069393 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI BLEMKER, SILVIA SALINAS, PEIRCE-COTTLER, SHAYN · 2016 to 2020
$2.5M
Tissue Engineering Approaches for Improved Treatment of Early Stage Osteonecrosis of the HipR01AR072613 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOODMAN, STUART B, YANG, YUNZHI · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
Integrative approach to studying LncRNA functionsR01GM123037 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ZHOU, XIAOBO · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241930NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR072613NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR069393NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR069395NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA sequencing experiments generate large amounts of information about expression levels of genes. Although they are mainly used for quantifying expression levels, they contain much more biologically important information such as copy number variants (CNVs). Here, we present CaSpER, a signal processing approach for identification, visualization, and integrative analysis of focal and large-scale CNV events in multiscale resolution using either bulk or single-cell RNA sequencing data. CaSpER integrates the multiscale smoothing of expression signal and allelic shift signals for CNV calling. The allelic shift signal measures the loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) which is valuable for CNV identification. CaSpER employs an efficient methodology for the generation of a genome-wide B-allele frequency (BAF) signal profile from the reads and utilizes it for correction of CNVs calls. CaSpER increases the utility of RNA-sequencing datasets and complements other tools for complete characterization and visualization of the genomic and transcriptomic landscape of single cell and bulk RNA sequencing data.

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DNA Copy Number VariationsSoftwareAlgorithmsAllelesComputational BiologyGenomicsHumansLoss of HeterozygosityPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell Analysis

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PMID31900397
PMCPMC6941987

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