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Genome-guided transcript assembly by integrative analysis of RNA sequence data

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Boley, Nathan, Stoiber, Marcus H, Booth, Benjamin W, Wan, Kenneth H, Hoskins, Roger A, Bickel, Peter J, Celniker, Susan E, Brown, James B·2014·Nature Biotechnology

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The identification of full length transcripts entirely from short-read RNA sequencing data (RNA-seq) remains a challenge in the annotation of genomes. Here we describe an automated pipeline for genome annotation that integrates RNA-seq and gene-boundary data sets, which we call Generalized RNA Integration Tool, or GRIT. Applying GRIT to Drosophila melanogaster short-read RNA-seq, cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) and poly(A)-site-seq data collected for the modENCODE project, we recovered the vast majority of previously annotated transcripts and doubled the total number of transcripts cataloged. We found that 20% of protein coding genes encode multiple protein-localization signals and that, in 20-d-old adult fly heads, genes with multiple polyadenylation sites are more common than genes with alternative splicing or alternative promoters. GRIT demonstrates 30% higher precision and recall than the most widely used transcript assembly tools. GRIT will facilitate the automated generation of high-quality genome annotations without the need for extensive manual annotation.

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  • Tools such as GRIT that incorporate other data such as 5' ends from CAGE or RAMPAGE typically have a better chance of annotating the major expressed isoforms correctly.

    “In addition, it is difficult to identify transcription start and end sites [21], and tools such as GRIT [22] that incorporate other data such as 5’ ends from CAGE or RAMPAGE typically have a better chance of annotating the major expressed isoforms correctly.”

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Authors
Boley, N., Stoiber, M. H., Booth, B. W., Wan, K. H., Hoskins, R. A., Bickel, P. J., Celniker, S. E., & Brown, J. B.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
  • Boley, Nathan
  • Celniker, Susan E
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2014-03-16
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
341-346
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2010394934
Cited by
48
References
40
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2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 5
FWCI
4.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Human Genome Research Institute (U01HG007031, R21HG006187, U01HG004271, K99HG006698)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Keywords
transcript assembly, genome annotation, RNA-seq, cap analysis of gene expression, grit, Drosophila melanogaster, modENCODE, polyadenylation sites, alternative splicing, alternative promoters, automated annotation pipeline
MeSH terms
Animals, Chromosome Mapping, Drosophila melanogaster, RNA, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Genomics, Genome, Insect, Molecular Sequence Annotation

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