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GeneScissors

GeneScissors

GeneScissors is a tool for quality control of mapped RNA-seq data. The GeneScissors algorithm combines machine learning (ML) with biological knowledge for the detections and adjustment of spurious inferences.

Topic

RNA-Seq; RNA; Transcriptomics

Details

  • Operation: Sequencing quality control; Read mapping
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface
  • Language: C++
  • Operating system: Linux
  • License: GNU GPL
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: -
  • Credit: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • Contact: Wei Wang weiwang _at_ cs.ucla.edu
  • Collection: -

Publications

Zhang Z, Huang S, Wang J, Zhang X, Pardo Manuel de Villena F, McMillan L, Wang W "GeneScissors: a comprehensive approach to detecting and correcting spurious transcriptome inference owing to RNA-seq reads misalignment." Bioinformatics. 2013 Jul 1;29(13):i291-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt216
PMID: 23812996
PMCID: PMC3694649


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