Talk in gene discovery session at PAGXXII (https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxii/webprogram/Session2128.html) Joint work with Jonas Behr, Gabriele Schweikert, Andre Kahles and others. Abstract: High throughput sequencing of mRNA (RNA-Seq) has led to tremendous improvements in detection of expressed genes and transcripts. However, the immense dynamic range of gene expression, limitations and biases of the sequencing technology, as well as the observed complexity of the transcriptional landscape pose profound computational challenges. We discuss several of these challenges and based on illustrative simulation examples, we identify the limits of state-of-the-art tools in reconstructing multiple alternative transcripts even if sufficient information is provided. We propose a novel framework, called MiTie, for simultaneous transcript reconstruction and quantification based on combinatorial optimization. We use the negative binomial distribution to define a likelihood function and use a regularization approach to select a small number of transcripts quantitatively explaining the observed read data. We show that the resulting regularized maximum likelihood problem can be formulated as a mixed integer programming problem (MIP) which can be solved optimally using standard optimization approaches. We will also describe an extension of the discriminative gene finding system mGene that takes advantage of RNA-seq reads. We demonstrate that the extended system mGene.ngs can significantly more accurately predict transcript annotations when using RNA-seq data and also better than tools for transcriptome reconstruction that are solely based on RNA-seq data. Finally, we illustrate how a combination of gene finding and transcriptome reconstruction methods like MiTie can be used to accurately annotate newly sequenced genomes without prior annotations.

1. RNA-Seq-based Genome Annotation
using mGene.ngs and MiTie
Gunnar R¨tsch
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Biomedical Data Science Group
Computational Biology Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Acknowledgements and Disclosures
Main contributors
Gabriele Schweikert
Jonas Behr
Andre Kahles
Funding
Financial interest disclosure
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Acknowledgements and Disclosures
Main contributors
Gabriele Schweikert
Jonas Behr
Andre Kahles
Funding
Financial interest disclosure
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Acknowledgements and Disclosures
Main contributors
Gabriele Schweikert
Jonas Behr
Andre Kahles
Funding
Financial interest disclosure
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Acknowledgements and Disclosures
Main contributors
Gabriele Schweikert
Jonas Behr
Andre Kahles
Funding
Financial interest disclosure
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Genome Annotation Pipeline(s)
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Genome Annotation Pipeline(s)
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Genome Annotation Pipeline(s)
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Genome Annotation Pipeline(s)
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Genome Annotation Pipeline(s)
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11. Proposed new gene finding method (mGene.ngs) for reannotation of
19 A. thaliana genomes (and genome assembly + analysis).
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mGene.ngs Overview
Goal: Predict annotation based on RNA-seq and genomic
sequence information
Learn function f (y |x) that scores gene models y based on
different sources of information x
Train parameters such that
f (y |x)
f (y |x) for all y = y
(“large margin”)
Hidden semi-Markov Support Vector Machines (HsM-SVMs)
[Altun et al., 2003, R¨tsch and Sonnenburg, 2007]
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Automatically adapts to quality of RNA-seq data/alignments
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mGene.ngs Overview
Goal: Predict annotation based on RNA-seq and genomic
sequence information
Learn function f (y |x) that scores gene models y based on
different sources of information x
Train parameters such that
f (y |x)
f (y |x) for all y = y
(“large margin”)
Hidden semi-Markov Support Vector Machines (HsM-SVMs)
[Altun et al., 2003, R¨tsch and Sonnenburg, 2007]
a
Automatically adapts to quality of RNA-seq data/alignments
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mGene.ngs Overview
Goal: Predict annotation based on RNA-seq and genomic
sequence information
Learn function f (y |x) that scores gene models y based on
different sources of information x
Train parameters such that
f (y |x)
f (y |x) for all y = y
(“large margin”)
Hidden semi-Markov Support Vector Machines (HsM-SVMs)
[Altun et al., 2003, R¨tsch and Sonnenburg, 2007]
a
Automatically adapts to quality of RNA-seq data/alignments
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Training of mGene
genomic position
True gene model
2
3
4
5
STEP 1: SVM Signal Predictions
tss
tis
acc
don
Score f(y|x)
stop
genomic position
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Training of mGene
genomic position
True gene model
2
3
4
5
STEP 1: SVM Signal Predictions
tss
tis
acc
don
Score f(y|x)
stop
genomic position
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Training of mGene
genomic position
True gene model
2
3
4
5
Wrong gene model
STEP 1: SVM Signal Predictions
tss
tis
acc
don
Score f(y|x)
stop
large margin
genomic position
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Training of mGene.ngs
genomic position
True gene model
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3
4
5
Wrong gene model
STEP 1: SVM Signal Predictions
tss
tis
acc
don
stop
Coverage
RNA-seq
Score f(y|x)
intron support
from spliced reads
large margin
genomic position
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Training of mGene.ngs
genomic position
True gene model
2
3
4
5
Wrong gene model
STEP 1: SVM Signal Predictions
tss
tis
acc
don
stop
Coverage
RNA-seq
intron support
from spliced reads
Score f(y|x)
larger margin
genomic position
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Results for C. elegans
RNA-seq:
paired-end, strand-specific RNA ligation based protocol
76bp reads, 50 million reads
Alignment with Palmapper
Evaluation:
Transcript-level F-score of coding transcripts
. . . for different expression levels
Compare mGene (ab initio), mGene.ngs, cufflinks
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Results for C. elegans
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Digestion
Observations:
RNA-seq helps to improve performance
Genomic signals help much (see cufflinks)
Problems:
Need existing annotation for training
Cannot predict non-coding transcripts
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Skimming and Non-coding Transcripts
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Skimming and Non-coding Transcripts
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Learning Strategy
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Learning Strategy
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Learning Strategy
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Results for C. elegans
0.7
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F−score
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mGene.ngs − w/ annotation
cufflinks − Trapnell et al. 2010
mGene.ngs − w/o annotation
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Results for C. elegans
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0.5
mGene − ab initio w/ annotation
mGene.ngs − w/ annotation
cufflinks − Trapnell et al. 2010
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F−score
0.5
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mGene.ngs − w/ annotation
cufflinks − Trapnell et al. 2010
mGene.ngs − w/o annotation
mGene.nc − w/o annotation
0.4
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0.2
De novo prediction works!
Modeling noncoding
transcripts improves coding
transcript prediction.
0.1
0
0
10
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Gene Finding vs. Transcript Assembly
Gene expression level
low
high
Genefinding + RNA-seq
=> only one transcript
RNA transcript assembly
=>multiple transcripts
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32. BIOINFORMATICS
ORIGINAL PAPER
Genome analysis
Vol. 29 no. 20 2013, pages 2529–2538
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt442
Advance Access publication August 25, 2013
MITIE: Simultaneous RNA-Seq-based transcript identification and
quantification in multiple samples
´
Jonas Behr1,2,*,y, Andre Kahles1, Yi Zhong1, Vipin T. Sreedharan1, Philipp Drewe1 and
¨
Gunnar Ratsch1,*
1
Computational Biology Center, Sloan-Kettering Institute, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA and 2Friedrich
Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society, Spemannstr. 39, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
¨
Associate Editor: Ivo Hofacker
ABSTRACT
c Gunnar R¨tsch (cBio@MSKCC)
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Motivation: High-throughput sequencing of mRNA (RNA-Seq) has led
to tremendous improvements in the detection of expressed genes and
reconstruction of RNA transcripts. However, the extensive dynamic
range of gene expression, technical limitations and biases, as well
as the observed complexity of the transcriptional landscape, pose
profound computational challenges for transcriptome reconstruction.
Results: We present the novel framework MITIE (Mixed Integer
Transcript IdEntification) for simultaneous transcript reconstruction
and quantification. We define a likelihood function based on the negative binomial distribution, use a regularization approach to select a few
transcripts collectively explaining the observed read data and show
how to find the optimal solution using Mixed Integer Programming.
MITIE can (i) take advantage of known transcripts, (ii) reconstruct
and quantify transcripts simultaneously in multiple samples, and
(iii) resolve the location of multi-mapping reads. It is designed for
genome- and assembly-based transcriptome reconstruction. We
present an extensive study based on realistic simulated RNA-Seq
data. When compared with state-of-the-art approaches, MITIE
proves to be significantly more sensitive and overall more accurate.
Moreover, MITIE yields substantial performance gains when used with
multiple samples. We applied our system to 38 Drosophila melanogaster modENCODE RNA-Seq libraries and estimated the sensitivity of
reconstructing omitted transcript annotations and the specificity with
RNA-Seq-based Annotation using corroborate that aand
respect to annotated transcripts. Our results mGene.ngs well-
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genic locus by means of alternative splicing, transcription start
and termination (e.g. Nilsen and Graveley, 2010; Ratsch et al.,
¨
2007; Schweikert et al., 2009). A comprehensive catalog of all
transcripts encoded by a genomic locus is essential for downstream analyses that aim at a more detailed understanding of
gene expression and RNA processing regulation.
RNA-Seq is a method for parallel sequencing of a large number of RNA molecules based on high-throughput sequencing
technologies (ENCODE Project Consortium et al., 2012;
Mortazavi et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2009). Currently available
sequencing platforms typically provide several 10–100 millions of
sequence fragments (reads) with a typical length of 50–150 bases.
By mapping these reads back to the genome, one can determine
where gene products are encoded in the genome (e.g. Denoeud
et al., 2008; Guttman et al., 2010; Trapnell et al., 2010; Xia et al.,
2011) and collect evidence of RNA processing such as splicing
(Bradley et al., 2012; Sonnenburg et al., 2007) or RNA-editing
(Bahn et al., 2012).
In many cases, the RNA-Seq reads are first aligned to a reference genome using an alignment tool that identifies possible
read origins within the genome. Contiguous regions covered with
read alignments (possibly with small gaps) are candidates for
exonic segments. Alignment tools for RNA-Seq reads, such as
PALMapper PAG XXIIal., 2008; Discovery Workshop
(De Bona et Gene Jean et al., 2010), TopHat
MiTie
Transcript prediction via combinatorial optimization that combines
evidence from multiple experiments & achieves higher accuracy.
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Transcript Reconstruction with RNA-seq
Reads
Genome Based Assembly
(Cufflinks, Scripture)
Read alignments
Denovo Assembly
(Trinity, Oases)
Genomic DNA
Data
processing
Segment graph
Optimization
108 possible transcripts, 1028 possible subsets of transcripts
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Transcript Reconstruction with RNA-seq
Reads
Genome Based Assembly
(Cufflinks, Scripture)
Read alignments
Denovo Assembly
(Trinity, Oases)
Genomic DNA
Data
processing
Segment graph
Optimization
108 possible transcripts, 1028 possible subsets of transcripts
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Enumerate and Quantify all Transcripts
Segment Graph
Potential Transcripts
[Behr et al., 2013]
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Segment Graph
Potential Transcripts
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
[Behr et al., 2013]
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Potential Transcripts
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
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0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
Sample1 Sample2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.9
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
R. Bohnert and G. R¨tsch, NAR (2010)
a
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Potential Transcripts
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
Sample1 Sample2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
min L( U T × W ,
W
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.9
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
C
)+γ× W
1
expected coverage observed coverage
R. Bohnert and G. R¨tsch, NAR (2010)
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[Behr et al., 2013]
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
k
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
[Behr et al., 2013]
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Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
N
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
min L( U T × W ,
U,W
Expected coverage
Sample1 Sample2
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
W
)+γ×N
C
expected coverage observed coverage
[Behr et al., 2013]
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
N
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
W
min L(U T × W , C ) + γ × N
U,W
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
N
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
W
min L(U T × W , C ) + γ × N
U,W
s.t.
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Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
N
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
W
min L(U T × W , C ) + γ × N
U,W
'$
s.t.
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&%
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Transcripts Matrix
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N
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
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0.0
0.1
0.0
W
min L(U T × W , C ) + γ × N
U,W
s.t.
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Segment Graph
Abundance
Transcripts Matrix
...
1 1 0
N
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0
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0
1
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Sample1 Sample2
0
1
0
0
U
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0.8
0.2
0.0
0.0
Expected coverage
0.9
0.0
0.1
0.0
W
min × W , C ) + γ × N
L(U T
U,W
s.t.
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MiTie’s Main Features
Uses a likelihood function L based on a probabilistic model for
the read coverage.
Uses combinatorial optimization to find transcripts that explain
data from multiple RNA-seq libraries
Newly predicted transcripts are penalized (once).
Can use already known/confirmed transcripts without penalty.
Provides a p-value for each transcript providing a confidence
measure for presence of predicted transcript.
Log-likelihood ratio test:
Tt = −2 log
p(D|M)
p(D|Mt )
[Behr et al., 2013]
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MiTie Results
F−score on Transcript Level
A
F−score on Transcript Level
B
Human Simulated Data
0.45
MITIE + MMO
MITIE
Cufflinks + Cuffmerge
Cufflinks
0.40
0.35
1
0.37
2
3
4
D. melanogaster modENCODE Data
5
0.35
0.33
0.31
0.29
MITIE
Cufflinks + Cuffmerge
1
2
3
4
5
Number of Samples
6
7
[Behr et al., 2013]
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Gene Finding vs. Transcript Assembly
Gene expression level
low
high
mGene.ngs
= only one transcript
MiTie
=multiple transcripts
low confidence
high confidence
for alternative transcripts
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
c Gunnar R¨tsch (cBio@MSKCC)
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
c Gunnar R¨tsch (cBio@MSKCC)
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Conclusions
Genome annotation pipeline
Transcript Skimmer identifies highly expressed genes for training
mGene.ngs predicts coding and non-coding transcripts
MiTie predicts alternative transcripts for highly expressed genes
Genome annotation pipeline requires only
Genome sequence
RNA-seq alignments
Good for annotating new genomes or improving existing ones
Sources are free http://bioweb.me/mgene
http://bioweb.me/mitie
Functionality partially available in Galaxy instance
(http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org)
Thank you!
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55. Just published:
Checkout:
http://oqtans.org
http://galaxy.cbio.mskcc.org
[Sreedharan et al., 2014]
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