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Polyester

Polyester

Polyester is a tool for simulation of RNA-seq reads with replicates.

Topic

RNA-Seq; Gene expression; Sequencing

Details

  • Operation: Simulated gene expression data generation
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface; Library
  • Language: R
  • Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows
  • License: Artistic-2.0
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 1.22.0
  • Maturity: Mature
  • Credit: The National Institutions of Health (NIH), Hopkins Sommer Scholarship, Lieber Institute for Brain Development.
  • Contact: Jack Fu jmfu _at_ jhsph.edu | Jeff Leek jtleek _at_ gmail.com
  • Collection: Bioconductor

Publications

Frazee AC, Jaffe AE, Langmead B, Leek JT "Polyester: simulating RNA-seq datasets with differential transcript expression." Bioinformatics. 2015 Sep 1;31(17):2778-84. Epub 2015 Apr 28. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv272
PMID: 25926345
PMCID: PMC4635655


Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J1, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nat Methods. 2015 Feb;12(2):115-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3252
PMID: 25633503
PMCID: PMC4509590


Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JY, Zhang J. "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biol. 2004;5(10):R80. Epub 2004 Sep 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80
PMID: 15461798
PMCID: PMC545600


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