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TEtranscripts (version 2.2.3+galaxy0)
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What it does

TEtranscripts is a software package that utilizes both unambiguously (uniquely) and ambiguously (multi-) mapped reads to perform differential enrichment analyses from high throughput sequencing experiments. Currently, most expression analysis software packates are not optimized for handling the complexities involved in quantifying highly repetitive regions of the genome, especially transposable elements (TE), from short sequencing reads. Although transposon elements make up between 20 to 80% of many eukaryotic genomes and contribute significantly to the cellular transcriptome output, the difficulty in quantifying their abundances from high throughput sequencing experiments has led them to be largely ignored in most studies. The TEtranscripts provides a noticeable improvement in the recovery of TE transcripts from RNA-Seq experiments and identification of peaks associated with repetitive regions of the genome.

Input

GTF files for gene annotation can be obtained from UCSC RefSeq, Ensembl, iGenomes or other annotation databases. GTF files for TE annotations are customly generated from UCSC RepeatMasker or other annotation database. They contain two custom attributes, class_id and family_id, corresponding to the class (e.g. LINE) and family (e.g. L1) of the corresponding transposable element. A unique ID (e.g. L1Md_Gf_dup1) is also assigned for each TE annotation in the transcript_id attribute.

Output

TEtranscripts quantifies both gene and transposable element (TE) transcript abundances from RNA-Seq experiments, utilizing both uniquely and ambiguously mapped short read sequences. It processes the short reads alignments (BAM files) and proportionally assigns read counts to the corresponding gene or TE based on the user-provided annotation files (GTF files). In addition, TEtranscripts combines multiple libraries and perform differential analysis using DESeq2.

References

More information are available on the project website and GitHub.