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Author Spotlight: AQRNA-seq Role in Mapping Small RNAs and Unraveling Protein Translation Mechanisms
Published on: February 2, 2024
LIONS: analysis suite for detecting and quantifying transposable element initiated transcription from RNA-seq
Artem Babaian1,2, I Richard Thompson3, Jake Lever2,4
1Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Summary:
Transposable elements (TEs) influence the evolution of novel transcriptional networks yet the specific and meaningful interpretation of how TE-derived transcriptional initiation contributes to the transcriptome has been marred by computational and methodological deficiencies. We developed LIONS for the analysis of RNA-seq data to specifically detect and quantify TE-initiated transcripts.
Availability And Implementation:
Source code, container, test data and instruction manual are freely available at www.github.com/ababaian/LIONS.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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