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BioMed Central, Genome Biology, 2(15), p. R34

DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r34

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A multi-split mapping algorithm for circular RNA, splicing, trans-splicing and fusion detection

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Abstract

Abstract Numerous high-throughput sequencing studies have focused on detecting conventionally spliced mRNAs in RNA-seq data. However, non-standard RNAs arising through gene fusion, circularization or trans-splicing are often neglected. We introduce a novel, unbiased algorithm to detect splice junctions from single-end cDNA sequences. In contrast to other methods, our approach accommodates multi-junction structures. Our method compares favorably with competing tools for conventionally spliced mRNAs and, with a gain of up to 40% of recall, systematically outperforms them on reads with multiple splits, trans-splicing and circular products. The algorithm is integrated into our mapping tool segemehl ( http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/Software/segemehl/ ).