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RetroSnake: A modular pipeline to detect human endogenous retroviruses in genome sequencing data.

Renata Kabiljo, Harry Bowles, Heather Marriott, Ashley R Jones, Clement R Bouton, Richard J B Dobson, John P Quinn, Ahmad Al Khleifat, Chad M Swanson, Ammar Al-Chalabi and 1 more

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renata KabiljoDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Harry BowlesDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Heather MarriottDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Ashley R JonesDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 9NU, UK.
Clement R BoutonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Richard J B DobsonDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
John P QuinnDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK.
Ahmad Al KhleifatDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 9NU, UK.
Chad M SwansonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
Ammar Al-ChalabiDepartment of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 9NU, UK.
Alfredo IacoangeliDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK.
King's College London · GBUniversity of Liverpool · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_17214Medical Research Council MR/L501529/1Medical Research Council MR/R024804/1Medical Research Council MR/S000844/1Motor Neurone Disease Association ALCHALABI-DOBSON/APR14/829-791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) integrated into the human genome as a result of ancient exogenous infections and currently comprise ∼8% of our genome. The members of the most recently acquired HERV family, HERV-Ks, still retain the potential to produce viral molecules and have been linked to a wide range of diseases including cancer and neurodegeneration. Although a range of tools for HERV detection in NGS data exist, most of them lack wet lab validation and they do not cover all steps of the analysis. Here, we describe RetroSnake, an end-to-end, modular, computationally efficient, and customizable pipeline for the discovery of HERVs in short-read NGS data. RetroSnake is based on an extensively wet-lab validated protocol, it covers all steps of the analysis from raw data to the generation of annotated results presented as an interactive html file, and it is easy to use by life scientists without substantial computational training. Availability and implementation: The Pipeline and an extensive documentation are available on GitHub.

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Biocomputational methodBioinformaticsSequence analysis

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PMID36339261
PMCPMC9626663
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