TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcripts
TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcripts
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2011-08-11
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Kim, D., Salzberg, S.L. TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcripts. Genome Biol 12, R72 (2011).
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TopHat-Fusion is an algorithm designed to discover transcripts representing fusion gene products, which result from the breakage and re-joining of two different chromosomes, or from rearrangements within a chromosome. TopHat-Fusion is an enhanced version of TopHat, an efficient program that aligns RNA-seq reads without relying on existing annotation. Because it is independent of gene annotation, TopHat-Fusion can discover fusion products deriving from known genes, unknown genes and unannotated splice variants of known genes. Using RNA-seq data from breast and prostate cancer cell lines, we detected both previously reported and novel fusions with solid supporting evidence. TopHat-Fusion is available at http://tophat-fusion.sourceforge.net/.