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¹Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

High-throughput sequencing generates vast amounts of data.
Accurate quantification of sequenced molecules is crucial for downstream analysis.
Assigning ambiguously mapping fragments poses a significant computational challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce eXpress, a novel software package for efficient probabilistic assignment of ambiguously mapping sequenced fragments.
To present a software solution that addresses the computational demands of large-scale sequencing data analysis.

Main Methods:

Developed a streaming algorithm with linear run time and constant memory usage.
Implemented probabilistic assignment for ambiguously mapping sequenced fragments.
Applied the eXpress software to RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data.

Main Results:

eXpress achieves efficient probabilistic assignment of ambiguously mapping fragments.
The software determines abundances of sequenced molecules in real time.
Demonstrated greater efficiency compared to existing quantification methods on RNA-seq data.

Conclusions:

eXpress offers an efficient and scalable solution for handling ambiguously mapping reads in sequencing data.
The software is applicable to various large-scale sequencing applications, including ChIP-seq and metagenomics.
eXpress enhances the efficiency of molecular abundance quantification in bioinformatics.