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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2023

Nanoblot: an R-package for visualization of RNA isoforms from long-read RNA-sequencing data.

Samuel DeMario, Kevin Xu, Kevin He, Guillaume F Chanfreau

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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4 authors.

Samuel DeMarioDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
Kevin XuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
Kevin HeDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA.
Guillaume F ChanfreauDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, USA guillom@chem.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2505-1950

Funding

The Control of Gene Expression by Eukaryotic RibonucleasesR35GM130370 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Guillaume F Chanfreau · 2019 to 2026
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130370
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RT-PCR and northern blots have long been used to study RNA isoforms usage for single genes. Recent advancements in long-read sequencing have yielded unprecedented information about the usage and abundance of these RNA isoforms. However, visualization of long-read sequencing data remains challenging due to the high information density. To alleviate these issues, we have developed NanoBlot, an open-source R-package that generates northern blot and RT-PCR-like images from long-read sequencing data. NanoBlot requires aligned, positionally sorted and indexed BAM files. Plotting is based around ggplot2 and is easily customizable. Advantages of NanoBlot include a robust system for designing probes to visualize isoforms including excluding reads based on the presence or absence of a specified region, an elegant solution to representing isoforms with continuous variations in length, and the ability to overlay multiple genes in the same plot using different colors. We present examples of nanoblots compared to actual northern blot data. In addition to traditional gel-like images, the NanoBlot package can also output other visualizations such as violin plots and 3'-RACE-like plots focused on 3'-end isoforms visualization. The use of the NanoBlot package should provide a simple answer to some of the challenges of visualizing long-read RNA-sequencing data.

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RNARNA IsoformsAlternative SplicingGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingProtein IsoformsSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeProtein IsoformsRNARNA Isoformsalternative polyadenylationalternative splicingdata visualizationisoform visualizationlong-read sequencingnanopore sequencing

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PMID37137666
PMCPMC10351882

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