In:
Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 29, No. 5 ( 2013-03-01), p. 649-651
Kurzfassung:
Summary: Insertional mutagenesis from virus infection is an important pathogenic risk for the development of cancer. Despite the advent of high-throughput sequencing, discovery of viral integration sites and expressed viral fusion events are still limited. Here, we present ViralFusionSeq (VFS), which combines soft-clipping information, read-pair analysis and targeted de novo assembly to discover and annotate viral–human fusions. VFS was used in an RNA-Seq experiment, simulated DNA-Seq experiment and re-analysis of published DNA-Seq datasets. Our experiments demonstrated that VFS is both sensitive and highly accurate. Availability: VFS is distributed under GPL version 3 at http://hkbic.cuhk.edu.hk/software/viralfusionseq Contact: tf.chan@cuhk.edu.hk Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Online
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1367-4811
,
1367-4803
DOI:
10.1093/bioinformatics/btt011
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publikationsdatum:
2013
ZDB Id:
1468345-3
SSG:
12