AIDE: annotation-assisted isoform discovery with high precision.
Genome Res
; 29(12): 2056-2072, 2019 12.
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| ID: mdl-31694868
ABSTRACT
Genome-wide accurate identification and quantification of full-length mRNA isoforms is crucial for investigating transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms of biological phenomena. Despite continuing efforts in developing effective computational tools to identify or assemble full-length mRNA isoforms from second-generation RNA-seq data, it remains a challenge to accurately identify mRNA isoforms from short sequence reads owing to the substantial information loss in RNA-seq experiments. Here, we introduce a novel statistical method, annotation-assisted isoform discovery (AIDE), the first approach that directly controls false isoform discoveries by implementing the testing-based model selection principle. Solving the isoform discovery problem in a stepwise and conservative manner, AIDE prioritizes the annotated isoforms and precisely identifies novel isoforms whose addition significantly improves the explanation of observed RNA-seq reads. We evaluate the performance of AIDE based on multiple simulated and real RNA-seq data sets followed by PCR-Sanger sequencing validation. Our results show that AIDE effectively leverages the annotation information to compensate the information loss owing to short read lengths. AIDE achieves the highest precision in isoform discovery and the lowest error rates in isoform abundance estimation, compared with three state-of-the-art methods Cufflinks, SLIDE, and StringTie. As a robust bioinformatics tool for transcriptome analysis, AIDE enables researchers to discover novel transcripts with high confidence.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
RNA Mensageiro
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Regulação da Expressão Gênica
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Análise de Sequência de RNA
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Perfilação da Expressão Gênica
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Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala
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Anotação de Sequência Molecular
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Isoformas de RNA
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Genome Res
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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GENETICA
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos