RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 lncRNA-screen: an interactive platform for computationally screening long non-coding RNAs in large genomics datasets
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 087080
DO 10.1101/087080
A1 Yixiao Gong
A1 Hsuan-Ting Huang
A1 Yu Liang
A1 Thomas Trimarchi
A1 Iannis Aifantis
A1 Aristotelis Tsirigos
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/10/087080.abstract
AB Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as a class of factors that are important for regulating development and cancer. Computational prediction of lncRNAs from ultra-deep RNA sequencing has been successful in identifying candidate lncRNAs. However, the complexity of handling and integrating different types of genomics data poses significant challenges to experimental laboratories that lack extensive genomics expertise. To address this issue, we have developed lncRNA-screen, a comprehensive pipeline for computationally screening putative lncRNA transcripts over large multimodal datasets. The main objective of this work is to facilitate the computational discovery of lncRNA candidates to be further examined by functional experiments. lncRNA-screen provides a fully automated easy-to-run pipeline which performs data download, RNA-seq alignment, assembly, quality assessment, transcript filtration, novel lncRNA identification, coding potential estimation, expression level quantification, histone mark enrichment profile integration, differential expression analysis, annotation with other type of segmented data (CNVs, SNPs, Hi-C, etc.) and visualization. Importantly, lncRNA-screen generates an interactive report summarizing all interesting lncRNA features including genome browser snapshots and lncRNA-mRNA interactions based on Hi-C data. In summary, our pipeline provides a comprehensive solution for lncRNA discovery and an intuitive interactive report for identifying promising lncRNA candidates. lncRNA-screen is available as free open-source software on GitHub.