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RNAIndel: discovering somatic coding indels from tumor RNA-Seq data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Reliable identification of expressed somatic insertions/deletions (indels) is an unmet need due to artifacts generated in PCR-based RNA-Seq library preparation and the lack of normal RNA-Seq data, presenting analytical challenges for discovery of somatic indels in tumor transcriptome.

Results

We present RNAIndel, a tool for predicting somatic, germline and artifact indels from tumor RNA-Seq data. RNAIndel leverages features derived from indel sequence context and biological effect in a machine-learning framework. Except for tumor samples with microsatellite instability, RNAIndel robustly predicts 88-100% of somatic indels in five diverse test datasets of pediatric and adult cancers, even recovering subclonal (VAF range 0.01-0.15) driver indels missed by targeted deep-sequencing, outperforming the current best-practice for RNA-Seq variant calling which had 57% sensitivity but with 14 times more false positives.

Availability and implementation

RNAIndel is freely available at https://github.com/stjude/RNAIndel.

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Hagiwara K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523641 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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RNAIndel: discovering somatic coding indels from tumor RNA-Seq data.

Hagiwara Kohei K Ding Liang L Edmonson Michael N MN Rice Stephen V SV Newman Scott S Easton John J Dai Juncheng J Meshinchi Soheil S Ries Rhonda E RE Rusch Michael M Zhang Jinghui J

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20200301 5

<h4>Motivation</h4>Reliable identification of expressed somatic insertions/deletions (indels) is an unmet need due to artifacts generated in PCR-based RNA-Seq library preparation and the lack of normal RNA-Seq data, presenting analytical challenges for discovery of somatic indels in tumor transcriptome.<h4>Results</h4>We present RNAIndel, a tool for predicting somatic, germline and artifact indels from tumor RNA-Seq data. RNAIndel leverages features derived from indel sequence context and biolog ...[more]

PMID: 31593214

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RNAIndel: discovering somatic coding indels from tumor RNA-Seq data.

Motivation

Results

Availability and implementation

Supplementary information

Publications

RNAIndel: discovering somatic coding indels from tumor RNA-Seq data.

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