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Targeted RNA Sequencing Assay to Characterize Gene Expression and Genomic Alterations
Published on: August 4, 2016
BreakFusion: targeted assembly-based identification of gene fusions in whole transcriptome paired-end sequencing data
Ken Chen1, John W Wallis, Cyriac Kandoth
1Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. kchen3@mdanderson.org
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Despite recent progress, computational tools that identify gene fusions from next-generation whole transcriptome sequencing data are often limited in accuracy and scalability. Here, we present a software package, BreakFusion that combines the strength of reference alignment followed by read-pair analysis and de novo assembly to achieve a good balance in sensitivity, specificity and computational efficiency.
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http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/main/BreakFusion
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