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ArticleMobile DNA2025

TE-Seq: a transposable element annotation and RNA-Seq pipeline.

Maxfield M G Kelsey, Radha L Kalekar, John M Sedivy

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Article in Mobile DNA, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  5. Characterization of Cellular Senescence in Primary Human Astrocytes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. RNA variation as the driver of genomic efficiency and phenotypic complexity.International journal of biological sciences · 2026
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Maxfield M G KelseyCenter on the Biology of Aging, and Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, 225 Dyer Street, RI, 02903, Providence, USA. maxfield_kelsey@brown.edu.
Radha L KalekarCenter on the Biology of Aging, and Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, 225 Dyer Street, RI, 02903, Providence, USA.
John M SedivyCenter on the Biology of Aging, and Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, 225 Dyer Street, RI, 02903, Providence, USA. john_sedivy@brown.edu.

Funding

Somatic Activation of Retrotransposition: A New Molecular Mechanism of Aging?P01AG051449 · NIA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI John M Sedivy · 2016 to 2026
$30.4M
MECHANISMS OF REPLICATIVE SENESCENCE IN CELLSR01AG016694 · NIA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI SEDIVY, JOHN M · 1999 to 2024
$5.7M
Defining molecular contributions of LINE-1 retrotransposons to AD / ADRDR01AG078925 · NIA · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI John LaCava, John M Sedivy · 2022 to 2026
$3.7M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG051449NIA NIH HHS P01 AG051449, R01 AG016694, R01 AG078925NIA NIH HHS R01 AG016694NIA NIH HHS R01 AG078925
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe recognition that transposable elements (TEs) play important roles in many biological processes has elicited growing interest in analyzing sequencing data derived from this 'dark genome'. This goal is complicated by the highly repetitive nature of these sequences in genomes, requiring the deployment of several problem-specific tools as well as the curation of appropriate genome annotations. This pipeline aims to make the analysis of TE sequences and their expression more generally accessible.

resultsThe TE-Seq pipeline conducts an end-to-end analysis of RNA sequencing data, examining both genes and TEs, and is compatible with most eukaryotic species. It implements computational methods tailor-made for TEs, and produces a comprehensive analysis of TE expression at both the level of the individual element and at the TE clade level. Furthermore, if supplied with long-read DNA sequencing data, it is able to assess TE expression from non-reference (polymorphic) loci. As a demonstration, we analyzed proliferating, early senescent, and late senescent human lung fibroblast RNA-Seq data, and created a custom reference genome and annotations for this cell strain using Nanopore sequencing data. We found that several retrotransposable element clades were upregulated in senescence, which included non-reference, intact, and potentially active elements.

conclusionsTE-Seq is made available as a Snakemake pipeline which can be obtained at https://github.com/maxfieldk/TE-Seq .

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LINE-1Long interspersed nuclear elementLong read DNA-SeqPolymorphic lociRetrotransposable elementsRNA-SeqTransposable elements

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