Sequencing artifacts produced by mispriming during reverse transcription in multiple RNA-seq technologies
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ABSTRACT: The quality of RNA sequencing data relies on specific priming by the primer used for reverse transcription (RT-primer). Non-specific annealing of the RT-primer to the RNA template can generate reads with incorrect cDNA ends and can cause misinterpretation of data (RT mispriming). This kind of artifact in RNA-seq based technologies is underappreciated and currently no adequate tools exist to computationally remove them from published datasets. We show that mispriming can occur with as little as 2 bases of complementarity at the 3' end of the primer followed by intermittent regions of complementarity. We propose an experimental solution to avoid RT-mispriming by performing RNA-seq using thermostable group II intron derived reverse transcriptase (TGIRT-seq).
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE85163 | GEO | 2018/06/26
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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