Handling multi-mapped reads in RNA-seq

Autor: Gabrielle Deschamps-Francoeur, Joël Simoneau, Michelle S. Scott
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Vol 18, Iss , Pp 1569-1576 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2001-0370
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.06.014
Popis: Many eukaryotic genomes harbour large numbers of duplicated sequences, of diverse biotypes, resulting from several mechanisms including recombination, whole genome duplication and retro-transposition. Such repeated sequences complicate gene/transcript quantification during RNA-seq analysis due to reads mapping to more than one locus, sometimes involving genes embedded in other genes. Genes of different biotypes have dissimilar levels of sequence duplication, with long-noncoding RNAs and messenger RNAs sharing less sequence similarity to other genes than biotypes encoding shorter RNAs. Many strategies have been elaborated to handle these multi-mapped reads, resulting in increased accuracy in gene/transcript quantification, although separate tools are typically used to estimate the abundance of short and long genes due to their dissimilar characteristics. This review discusses the mechanisms leading to sequence duplication, the biotypes affected, the computational strategies employed to deal with multi-mapped reads and the challenges that still remain to be overcome.
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