"By removing the time-consuming step of read mapping, the authors reported, Sailfish able to provide quantification estimates 20–30 times faster than current methods without loss of accuracy."
Tool link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckingsf/software/sailfish/
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List of RNA-Seq bioinformatics tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RNA-Seq_bioinformatics_tools
GenePattern offers a set of tools to support a wide variety of RNA-seq analyses, including short-read mapping, identification of splice junctions, transcript and isoform detection, quantitation, differential expression, quality control metrics, visualization, and file utilities. http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/software/genepattern/modules/RNA-seq
RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v10/n1/abs/nrg2484.html
OmiRas, a web server (from GenXPro Frankfurt) for the annotation, comparison and visualization of interaction networks of non-coding RNAs derived from small RNA-Sequencing experiments of two different conditions.
http://tools.genxpro.net/omiras