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Piecing the puzzle together: a revisit to transcript reconstruction problem in RNA-seq

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, September 2014
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Title
Piecing the puzzle together: a revisit to transcript reconstruction problem in RNA-seq
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BMC Bioinformatics, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-15-s9-s3
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Yan Huang, Yin Hu, Jinze Liu

Abstract

The advancement of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to assess both the diversity and quantity of transcript isoforms in an mRNA transcriptome. In this paper, we revisit the computational problem of transcript reconstruction and quantification. Unlike existing methods which focus on how to explain the exons and splice variants detected by the reads with a set of isoforms, we aim at reconstructing transcripts by piecing the reads into individual effective transcript copies. Simultaneously, the quantity of each isoform is explicitly measured by the number of assembled effective copies, instead of estimated solely based on the collective read count. We have developed a novel method named Astroid that solves the problem of effective copy reconstruction on the basis of a flow network. The RNA-seq reads are represented as vertices in the flow network and are connected by weighted edges that evaluate the likelihood of two reads originating from the same effective copy. A maximum likelihood set of transcript copies is then reconstructed by solving a minimum-cost flow problem on the flow network. Simulation studies on the human transcriptome have demonstrated the superior sensitivity and specificity of Astroid in transcript reconstruction as well as improved accuracy in transcript quantification over several existing approaches. The application of Astroid on two real RNA-seq datasets has further demonstrated its accuracy through high correlation between the estimated isoform abundance and the qRT-PCR validations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 16%
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 25 81%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 19%
Other 3 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Other 6 19%
Unknown 3 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 61%
Computer Science 5 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Mathematics 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 3 10%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2014.
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