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ArticleBMC biology2023

RNAlysis: analyze your RNA sequencing data without writing a single line of code.

Guy Teichman, Dror Cohen, Or Ganon, Netta Dunsky, Shachar Shani, Hila Gingold, Oded Rechavi

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Article in BMC biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Guy TeichmanDepartment of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. guyteichman@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2285-1343
Dror CohenDepartment of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Or Ganon *Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Netta Dunsky *Sagol Brain Institute, Sourasky Medical Center, Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Shachar Shani *Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hila GingoldDepartment of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Oded RechaviDepartment of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Funding

European Research Council 335624
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAmong the major challenges in next-generation sequencing experiments are exploratory data analysis, interpreting trends, identifying potential targets/candidates, and visualizing the results clearly and intuitively. These hurdles are further heightened for researchers who are not experienced in writing computer code since most available analysis tools require programming skills. Even for proficient computational biologists, an efficient and replicable system is warranted to generate standardized results.

resultsWe have developed RNAlysis, a modular Python-based analysis software for RNA sequencing data. RNAlysis allows users to build customized analysis pipelines suiting their specific research questions, going all the way from raw FASTQ files (adapter trimming, alignment, and feature counting), through exploratory data analysis and data visualization, clustering analysis, and gene set enrichment analysis. RNAlysis provides a friendly graphical user interface, allowing researchers to analyze data without writing code. We demonstrate the use of RNAlysis by analyzing RNA sequencing data from different studies using C. elegans nematodes. We note that the software applies equally to data obtained from any organism with an existing reference genome.

conclusionsRNAlysis is suitable for investigating various biological questions, allowing researchers to more accurately and reproducibly run comprehensive bioinformatic analyses. It functions as a gateway into RNA sequencing analysis for less computer-savvy researchers, but can also help experienced bioinformaticians make their analyses more robust and efficient, as it offers diverse tools, scalability, automation, and standardization between analyses.

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Caenorhabditis elegansRNAAnimalsComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareUser-Computer InterfaceRNAClustering analysisComputational analysisData visualizationDifferential expressionGene set enrichment analysisGraphical interfacePipelineRNA sequencing

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PMID37024838
PMCPMC10080885

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