AllelicImbalance: an R/bioconductor package for detecting, managing, and visualizing allele expression imbalance data from RNA sequencing

One aspect in which RNA sequencing is more valuable than microarray-based methods is the ability to examine the allelic imbalance of the expression of a gene. This process is often a complex task that entails quality control, alignment, and the counting of reads over heterozygous single-nucleotide p...

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Published in:BMC bioinformatics 2015-06, Vol.16 (1), p.194-194, Article 194
Main Authors: Gådin, Jesper R, van't Hooft, Ferdinand M, Eriksson, Per, Folkersen, Lasse
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alleles
Allelic Imbalance - genetics
Analysis
Aorta - metabolism
Computer Graphics
Exons - genetics
Gene expression
Genes
Genetic aspects
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - methods
Humans
Liver - metabolism
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics
Quality control
RNA sequencing
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Analysis, RNA - methods
Software
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Summary:One aspect in which RNA sequencing is more valuable than microarray-based methods is the ability to examine the allelic imbalance of the expression of a gene. This process is often a complex task that entails quality control, alignment, and the counting of reads over heterozygous single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Allelic imbalance analysis is subject to technical biases, due to differences in the sequences of the measured alleles. Flexible bioinformatics tools are needed to ease the workflow while retaining as much RNA sequencing information as possible throughout the analysis to detect and address the possible biases. We present AllelicImblance, a software program that is designed to detect, manage, and visualize allelic imbalances comprehensively. The purpose of this software is to allow users to pose genetic questions in any RNA sequencing experiment quickly, enhancing the general utility of RNA sequencing. The visualization features can reveal notable, non-trivial allelic imbalance behavior over specific regions, such as exons. The software provides a complete framework to perform allelic imbalance analyses of aligned RNA sequencing data, from detection to visualization, within the robust and versatile management class, ASEset.
ISSN:1471-2105
1471-2105
DOI:10.1186/s12859-015-0620-2