ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022
Computational Analysis of Alternative Splicing Using VAST-TOOLS and the VastDB Framework.
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- EPBAM: annotation-robust detection of alternative splicing events and a systematic benchmarking of current tools.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Comprehensive review and assessment of multi-species splicing variant prediction: task-specific deep learning models and genomic foundation models.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Review
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- Deciphering alternative splicing patterns during cell fate transition of fast chemical reprogramming.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Steering research on mRNA splicing in cancer towards clinical translation.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2024Review
- Genome-scale exon perturbation screens uncover exons critical for cell fitness.Molecular cell · 2024Article
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Abstract
Alternative splicing (AS) can vastly expand animal transcriptomes and proteomes. Two main open questions in the field are how AS is regulated across cell/tissue types and disease, and what roles different AS events play. To facilitate AS research, we have created the computational VastDB framework, which comprises a series of complementary software and resources that we describe in this chapter. The VastDB framework is especially designed to aid biomedical researchers without a strong computational background. It offers tools and resources to: (a) quantify AS and identify differentially spliced AS events using RNA-seq data (vast-tools), (b) perform multiple genomic and sequence analyses for investigating AS events (Matt), (c) identify AS events with genomic and regulatory conservation among species (ExOrthist), and (d) help with the biological interpretation of the results, and, ultimately, with the identification of interesting AS events to design wet-lab experiments (VastDB and PastDB).
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