| Title: |
transXpress: a Snakemake pipeline for streamlined de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation |
| Authors: |
Fallon, Timothy R.; Čalounová, Tereza; Mokrejš, Martin; Weng, Jing-Ke; Pluskal, Tomáš |
| Contributors: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
| Source: |
BioMed Central |
| Publisher Information: |
BioMed Central |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Description: |
Background RNA-seq followed by de novo transcriptome assembly has been a transformative technique in biological research of non-model organisms, but the computational processing of RNA-seq data entails many different software tools. The complexity of these de novo transcriptomics workflows therefore presents a major barrier for researchers to adopt best-practice methods and up-to-date versions of software. Results Here we present a streamlined and universal de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation pipeline, transXpress, implemented in Snakemake. transXpress supports two popular assembly programs, Trinity and rnaSPAdes, and allows parallel execution on heterogeneous cluster computing hardware. Conclusions transXpress simplifies the use of best-practice methods and up-to-date software for de novo transcriptome assembly, and produces standardized output files that can be mined using SequenceServer to facilitate rapid discovery of new genes and proteins in non-model organisms. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-023-05254-8; https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150477; BMC Bioinformatics. 2023 Apr 04;24(1):133; PUBLISHER_CC |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150477 |
| Rights: |
Creative Commons Attribution ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; The Author(s) |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6C26B947 |
| Database: |
BASE |