Project description:Since short reads from Illumina RNA-seq data are challenging to map to repetitive elements , we wanted to confirm the bulk RNA-seq findings using an orthogonal method, namely, using the long read technology of Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) full-length transcriptome sequencing. This dataset provided around 1.1 (WT) and 1.3 (RBM4 KO) million sequence reads of 2.6 kb average length mapping to the human genome.
Project description:Alternative splicing is widely acknowledged to be a crucial regulator of gene expression and is a key contributor to both normal developmental processes and disease states. While cost-effective and accurate for quantification, short-read RNA-seq lacks the ability to resolve full-length transcript isoforms despite increasingly sophisticated computational methods. Long-read sequencing platforms such as Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore (ONT) bypass the transcript reconstruction challenges of short-reads. Here we describe TALON, the ENCODE4 pipeline for analyzing PacBio cDNA and ONT direct-RNA transcriptomes. We apply TALON to three human ENCODE Tier 1 cell lines and show that while both technologies perform well at full-transcript discovery and quantification, each technology has its distinct artifacts. We further apply TALON to mouse cortical and hippocampal transcriptomes and find that a substantial proportion of neuronal genes have more reads associated with novel isoforms than annotated ones. The TALON pipeline for technology-agnostic, long-read transcriptome discovery and quantification tracks both known and novel transcript models as well as expression levels across datasets for both simple studies and larger projects such as ENCODE that seek to decode transcriptional regulation in the human and mouse genomes to predict more accurate expression levels of genes and transcripts than possible with short-reads alone.
2019-06-15 | GSE132766 | GEO
Project description:Highly-accurate long-read sequencing of HG002/NA24385
Project description:We used Pacific Biosciences Single Molecule Real-Time sequencing platform to identify m6A modifications and putative methyltransferases in Bacillus subtilis
Project description:We used Pacific Biosciences Single Molecule Real-Time sequencing platform to identify m6A modifications and putative methyltransferases in Bacillus subtilis
Project description:Alternative splicing is widely acknowledged to be a crucial regulator of gene expression and is a key contributor to both normal developmental processes and disease states. While cost-effective and accurate for quantification, short-read RNA-seq lacks the ability to resolve full-length transcript isoforms despite increasingly sophisticated computational methods. Long-read sequencing platforms such as Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore (ONT) bypass the transcript reconstruction challenges of short-reads. Here we describe TALON, the ENCODE4 pipeline for analyzing PacBio cDNA and ONT direct-RNA transcriptomes. We apply TALON to three human ENCODE Tier 1 cell lines and show that while both technologies perform well at full-transcript discovery and quantification, each one displayed distinct artifacts. We further apply TALON to mouse cortical and hippocampal transcriptomes and find that a substantial proportion of neuronal genes have more reads associated with novel isoforms than with annotated ones. These data show that TALON is a technology-agnostic long-read transcriptome discovery and quantification pipeline capable of tracking both known and novel transcript models, as well as their expression levels, across datasets for both simple studies and in larger projects. These properties will enable TALON users to move beyond the limitations of short-read data to perform isoform discovery and quantification in a uniform manner on existing and future long-read platforms.
Project description:We used Pacific Biosciences Single Molecule Real-Time sequencing platform to identify modified motifs in an RM deficient strain of Streptococcus pyogenes