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Exploring RNA Sequence Analysis: Tools for Every Bioinformatician

Neel — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:03:04 -0600

RNA sequence analysis has become an essential part of modern biological research. From RNA-seq pipelines to specialized tools for specific RNA types, here's a comprehensive guide to tools you can use to make sense of RNA data.

1. RNA-Seq Analysis Pipelines

RNA-seq is one of the most popular techniques for studying RNA. These tools streamline processing raw sequence data:

FASTQC: For quality control of raw RNA-seq reads.
Trimmomatic: For trimming and filtering RNA-seq reads.
HISAT2/STAR: High-performance aligners for RNA-seq reads.
FeatureCounts: For quantifying gene expression.
DESeq2/EdgeR: For differential expression analysis.

2. Transcriptome Assembly and Annotation

For analyzing transcriptomes from non-model organisms or assembling novel transcripts:

Trinity: For de novo transcriptome assembly.
StringTie: For transcript assembly and quantification from RNA-seq alignments.
TransDecoder: To predict coding regions within assembled transcripts.
TAU: Tools for annotating non-coding and coding RNAs.

3. Exploring Non-Coding RNA (ncRNA)

Non-coding RNAs play critical regulatory roles. Dedicated tools for studying them include:

Infernal: For identifying ncRNA sequences based on covariance models.
Rfam: Database and tools for ncRNA families.
miRDeep: For identifying microRNAs in RNA-seq datasets.

4. RNA Structure and Motif Analysis

Structural biology of RNA helps in understanding its function:

RNAfold (ViennaRNA): Predicts secondary structures from RNA sequences.
RNAstructure: Tools for RNA secondary structure prediction and analysis.
MEME Suite: For identifying motifs in RNA sequences.
IntaRNA: For RNA-RNA interaction prediction.

5. RNA Editing and Modifications

Epitranscriptomics is a growing field focusing on RNA modifications:

REDItools: For RNA editing analysis.
m6Aboost: For identifying m6A modifications in RNA.

6. Long-Read RNA Sequencing Analysis

Long-read technologies like Nanopore and PacBio are transforming RNA research:

FLAIR: For isoform-level analysis of long-read RNA-seq data.
NanoMod: For detecting modifications in RNA from Nanopore sequencing.

7. RNA-Protein Interactions

To study RNA-protein interactions and complexes:

RBPmap: For identifying RNA-binding protein motifs.
PARalyzer: For analyzing PAR-CLIP data.

8. Functional Enrichment Analysis

Understanding biological functions and pathways from RNA-seq data:

getENRICH: A tool designed for pathway enrichment analysis of non-model organisms (hypergeometric P-value calculation with FDR correction).
ClusterProfiler: For GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis.

9. Visualization and Data Sharing

Presenting and sharing RNA sequence analysis results effectively:

IGV: Genome browser for visualizing RNA-seq alignments.
Circos: Circular visualization of RNA-seq data.
DashBio: A Python library for creating bioinformatics visualizations.

Conclusion

The bioinformatics landscape for RNA sequence analysis is vast, with tools catering to specific needs. Whether you’re studying coding RNAs, non-coding RNAs, or exploring RNA-protein interactions, the right tools can transform your data into biological insights.

Webinar on RNA-Seq Data Analysis on 28 Feb 2018

Strand — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:38:48 -0600

Strand NGS is a biologist friendly NGS analysis tool that allows biologists to analyze their data using a very intuitive workflow for the analysis and visualization of RNA-Seq data. This webinar will give an overview of the workflow which includes Transcriptome/ Genome alignment, Differential expression analysis, Splicing events and gene fusion detection. Strand NGS also supports novel discovery like identification of novel genes, exons and novel splice junctions.
We will highlight the use of Strand NGS features such as PCA, sample correlation, clustering, Venn diagrams, CVA, UMI support and elastic genome browser used in RNA-Seq workflow that supports large scale RNA-Seq data analysis too. The tool also supports biological contextualization on the set of interesting genes from the data by allowing downstream analysis such as GO and pathway analysis. The product has an option to create pipelines for time consuming jobs which automates analysis and leaves more time for end data interpretation. This webinar will give an overview of the features in the RNA-Seq data analysis workflow in Strand NGS.

Details:
Session 1: 28 Feb 2018, 9 AM CET
Session 2: 28 Feb 2018, 8 AM PST
Register here: http://www.strand-ngs.com/webinar_registration

About Speaker:

Dr. Suman Kapoor, Manager- Application Science at Strand Life Sciences, has over 11 years experience in molecular biology, next-generation sequencing based testing, clinical genomics, and personalized medicine for disease management and prenatal testing. Dr. Suman holds a Ph.D in Molecular and Cell Biology from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prior to joining Strand NGS team, Suman has worked extensively on protein synthesis in eubacteria and has experience working in CAP and NABL accredited lab validating and interpreting NGS based diagnostic tests.

COSMOS, our workflow management system for NGS data

Jit — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:29:14 -0500

COSMOS, our Python-based management system for implementing large-scale parallel workflows focusing on, but not restricted to, large-scale short-read "NGS" sequencing data is open-access published via Advance Access in Bioinformatics (Gafni et al. 2014). It is also available for download for non-commercial academic and research purposes at:

http://cosmos.hms.harvard.edu/.

Address of the bookmark: https://cosmos.hms.harvard.edu/

CLAW: Chloroplast Long-read Assembly Workflow

LEGE — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:37:46 -0600

CLAW (Chloroplast Long-read Assembly Workflow) is an mostly-automated Snakemake-based workflow for the assembly of chloroplast genomes. CLAW uses chloroplast long-reads, which are baited out of larger read libraries (e.g., an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION read library derived from photosynthetic tissue), for assembly with Flye and/or Unicycler. CLAW was designed with the novice bioinformatician in mind - it is easy to install and easy to use, requiring only minimal user input.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/aaronphillips7493/CLAW

VirtualFlow: a versatile, parallel workflow platform for carrying out virtual screening

BioStar — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:03:09 -0500

related tasks on Linux-based computer clusters of any type and size which are managed by a batchsystem (such as SLURM).

Currently, there exist two versions of VirtualFlow, which are tailored to different types of tasks:

They use the same core technology regarding the workflow management and parallelization, and they can be used individually or in concert with each other. Additional versions are expected to arrive in the future.

https://github.com/VirtualFlow

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2117-z?

Address of the bookmark: https://virtual-flow.org/

Arvados

Martin Jones — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:54:21 -0500

Arvados is a free and open source bioinformatics platform for genomic and biomedical data. User can Store | Organize | Compute | Share the data for free.

Address of the bookmark: https://arvados.org/

methylKit

Jit — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:09:29 -0500

methylKit is an R package for DNA methylation analysis and annotation from high-throughput bisulfite sequencing. The package is designed to deal with sequencing data from RRBS and its variants, but also target-capture methods such as Agilent SureSelect methyl-seq. In addition, methylKit can deal with base-pair resolution data for 5hmC obtained from Tab-seq or oxBS-seq. It can also handle whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data if proper input format is provided.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/al2na/methylKit

QuIN’s web server

Jit — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:44:16 -0500

Recent studies of the human genome have indicated that regulatory elements (e.g. promoters and enhancers) at distal genomic locations can interact with each other via chromatin folding and affect gene expression levels. Genomic technologies for mapping interactions between DNA regions, e.g., ChIA-PET and HiC, can generate genome-wide maps of interactions between regulatory elements. These interaction datasets are important resources to infer distal gene targets of non-coding regulatory elements and to facilitate prioritization of critical loci for important cellular functions. With the increasing diversity and complexity of genomic information and public ontologies, making sense of these datasets demands integrative and easy-to-use software tools. Moreover, network representation of chromatin interaction maps enables effective data visualization, integration, and mining. Currently, there is no software that can take full advantage of network theory approaches for the analysis of chromatin interaction datasets. To fill this gap, we developed a web-based application, QuIN, which enables: 1) building and visualizing chromatin interaction networks, 2) annotating networks with user-provided private and publicly available functional genomics and interaction datasets, 3) querying network components based on gene name or chromosome location, and 4) utilizing network based measures to identify and prioritize critical regulatory targets and their direct and indirect interactions.

AVAILABILITY: QuIN’s web server is available at http://quin.jax.org QuIN is developed in Java and JavaScript, utilizing an Apache Tomcat web server and MySQL database and the source code is available under the GPLV3 license available on GitHub:https://github.com/UcarLab/QuIN/.

Address of the bookmark: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004809

Fancy Oneliner for Bioinformatics !!

Poonam Mahapatra — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:05:50 -0500

This webpage lists some of the one-liners that we frequently use in metagenomic analyses. You can click on the following links to browse through different topics. You can copy/paste the commands as they are in your terminal screen, provided you follow the same naming conventions and folder structures as we have. We are sharing these codes with the intention that if they are useful and help you in your analyses, then we will be appropriately credited as considerable effort has been put into devising them.

Address of the bookmark: http://userweb.eng.gla.ac.uk/umer.ijaz/bioinformatics/oneliners.html

Genome STRiP

Neel — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:58:19 -0500

Genome STRiP (Genome STRucture In Populations) is a suite of tools for discovering and genotyping structural variations using sequencing data. The methods are designed to detect shared variation using data from multiple individuals.

Genome STRiP looks both across and within a set of sequenced genomes to detect variation. The methods are adaptive and support heterogeneous data sets, including variations in sequencing depth, read lengths and mixtures of paired and single-end reads. A minimum of 20 to 30 genomes are required to get acceptable results, but the method gains power across genomes and processing more genomes provide better results.

To run discovery or genotyping on a single sequenced genome or a small set of genomes, you need to call your data against a background population, such as a set of genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project. The background population does not need to be matched to the target individuals.

Address of the bookmark: http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/genomestrip/