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SPARTA: Simple Program for Automated reference-based bacterial RNA-seq Transcriptome Analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, February 2016
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Title
SPARTA: Simple Program for Automated reference-based bacterial RNA-seq Transcriptome Analysis
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-0923-y
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Authors

Benjamin K. Johnson, Matthew B. Scholz, Tracy K. Teal, Robert B. Abramovitch

Abstract

Many tools exist in the analysis of bacterial RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) transcriptional profiling experiments to identify differentially expressed genes between experimental conditions. Generally, the workflow includes quality control of reads, mapping to a reference, counting transcript abundance, and statistical tests for differentially expressed genes. In spite of the numerous tools developed for each component of an RNA-seq analysis workflow, easy-to-use bacterially oriented workflow applications to combine multiple tools and automate the process are lacking. With many tools to choose from for each step, the task of identifying a specific tool, adapting the input/output options to the specific use-case, and integrating the tools into a coherent analysis pipeline is not a trivial endeavor, particularly for microbiologists with limited bioinformatics experience. To make bacterial RNA-seq data analysis more accessible, we developed a Simple Program for Automated reference-based bacterial RNA-seq Transcriptome Analysis (SPARTA). SPARTA is a reference-based bacterial RNA-seq analysis workflow application for single-end Illumina reads. SPARTA is turnkey software that simplifies the process of analyzing RNA-seq data sets, making bacterial RNA-seq analysis a routine process that can be undertaken on a personal computer or in the classroom. The easy-to-install, complete workflow processes whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing data files by trimming reads and removing adapters, mapping reads to a reference, counting gene features, calculating differential gene expression, and, importantly, checking for potential batch effects within the data set. SPARTA outputs quality analysis reports, gene feature counts and differential gene expression tables and scatterplots. SPARTA provides an easy-to-use bacterial RNA-seq transcriptional profiling workflow to identify differentially expressed genes between experimental conditions. This software will enable microbiologists with limited bioinformatics experience to analyze their data and integrate next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies into the classroom. The SPARTA software and tutorial are available at sparta.readthedocs.org.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 142 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 39 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 21%
Student > Master 22 15%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 18 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 46 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 45 30%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 3%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 24 16%
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