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ArticleGenome biology2024

Splice_sim: a nucleotide conversion-enabled RNA-seq simulation and evaluation framework.

Niko Popitsch, Tobias Neumann, Arndt von Haeseler, Stefan L Ameres

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Article in Genome biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Niko Popitsch *Max Perutz Labs, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, A-1030, Austria. niko.popitsch@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2318-2391
Tobias Neumann *Quantro Therapeutics, Vienna, A-1030, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3908-4224
Arndt von HaeselerCenter for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, A-1030, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3366-4458
Stefan L AmeresMax Perutz Labs, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Vienna, A-1030, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8248-3098

Funding

Austrian Science Fund SFB F-8002European Research Council ERC-COG-866166H2020 European Research Council ERC-CoG-866166
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleotide conversion RNA sequencing techniques interrogate chemical RNA modifications in cellular transcripts, resulting in mismatch-containing reads. Biases in mapping the resulting reads to reference genomes remain poorly understood. We present splice_sim, a splice-aware RNA-seq simulation and evaluation pipeline that introduces user-defined nucleotide conversions at set frequencies, creates mixture models of converted and unconverted reads, and calculates mapping accuracies per genomic annotation. By simulating nucleotide conversion RNA-seq datasets under realistic experimental conditions, including metabolic RNA labeling and RNA bisulfite sequencing, we measure mapping accuracies of state-of-the-art spliced-read mappers for mouse and human transcripts and derive strategies to prevent biases in the data interpretation.

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RNA-SeqAnimalsComputer SimulationHumansMiceNucleotidesRNA SplicingSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareNucleotides3′ end sequencingMetabolic RNA labelingNucleotide conversion sequencingRead mapping accuracyRNA-BS-seqSLAMseqSpliced read mapping

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PMID38918865
PMCPMC11514792

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