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Identification of Alternative Splicing and Polyadenylation in RNA-seq Data

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Gene expression and isoform variation analysis using Affymetrix Exon Arrays.

Amandine Bemmo¹, David Benovoy, Tony Kwan

¹Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada. amandine.bemmo@umontreal.ca

|November 8, 2008

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The Affymetrix Exon Array offers comparable gene expression profiling to traditional platforms but excels at detecting isoform variations. Careful analysis is needed to interpret alternative splicing data and mitigate potential errors.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics

Background:

Alternative splicing and isoform expression profiling are advancing fields in genomics.
Splicing-sensitive microarrays are increasingly used for expression profiling and isoform detection.
The performance of exon-junction arrays compared to 3'-targeted arrays requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To benchmark the Affymetrix Exon Array using the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) dataset.
To compare the Exon Array's performance against Illumina and Affymetrix U133 platforms.
To evaluate the Exon Array's capability in detecting isoform-level expression changes.

Main Methods:

Utilized the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) dataset for comparative analysis.
Benchmarked the Affymetrix Exon Array against Illumina and Affymetrix U133 platforms.
Analyzed gene and isoform expression levels across different microarray platforms.

Main Results:

Exon Array demonstrated comparable gene expression profiling to 3'-targeted platforms, with slightly lower interplatform correlation.
Discrepancies were attributed to RNA amplification protocols and the Exon Array's ability to detect non-polyadenylated transcripts.
Exon Array effectively resolved isoform variations, including alternative splicing, transcript termination, and alternative promoter usage, missed by 3'-targeted platforms.

Conclusions:

The Exon Array is valuable for gene expression profiling and detailed isoform analysis.
Alternative splicing analysis requires significant effort and can yield higher false positive rates.
Transcript amplification efficiency variations, influenced by GC content and synthesis issues, introduce errors not fully corrected by current methods; data filtering approaches are suggested.