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ArticleNature communications2021

Jumper enables discontinuous transcript assembly in coronaviruses.

Palash Sashittal, Chuanyi Zhang, Jian Peng, Mohammed El-Kebir

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Palash SashittalDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6581-4839
Chuanyi ZhangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6359-0904
Jian PengDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1736-2978
Mohammed El-KebirDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. melkebir@illinois.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1468-2407
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) CCF-2046488
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genes in SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in the order of Nidovirales are expressed by a process of discontinuous transcription which is distinct from alternative splicing in eukaryotes and is mediated by the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Here, we introduce the DISCONTINUOUS TRANSCRIPT ASSEMBLYproblem of finding transcripts and their abundances given an alignment of paired-end short reads under a maximum likelihood model that accounts for varying transcript lengths. We show, using simulations, that our method, JUMPER, outperforms existing methods for classical transcript assembly. On short-read data of SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV samples, we find that JUMPER not only identifies canonical transcripts that are part of the reference transcriptome, but also predicts expression of non-canonical transcripts that are supported by subsequent orthogonal analyses. Moreover, application of JUMPER on samples with and without treatment reveals viral drug response at the transcript level. As such, JUMPER enables detailed analyses of Nidovirales transcriptomes under varying conditions.

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Alternative SplicingCOVID-19Gene Expression ProfilingHumansSARS-CoV-2Transcriptome

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