Ernesto Picardi1, Graziano Pesole. 1. Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy. ernesto.picardi@uniba.it
Abstract
SUMMARY: The reliable detection of RNA editing sites from massive sequencing data remains challenging and, although several methodologies have been proposed, no computational tools have been released to date. Here, we introduce REDItools a suite of python scripts to perform high-throughput investigation of RNA editing using next-generation sequencing data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: REDItools are in python programming language and freely available at http://code.google.com/p/reditools/. CONTACT: ernesto.picardi@uniba.it or graziano.pesole@uniba.it SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SUMMARY: The reliable detection of RNA editing sites from massive sequencing data remains challenging and, although several methodologies have been proposed, no computational tools have been released to date. Here, we introduce REDItools a suite of python scripts to perform high-throughput investigation of RNA editing using next-generation sequencing data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: REDItools are in python programming language and freely available at http://code.google.com/p/reditools/. CONTACT: ernesto.picardi@uniba.it or graziano.pesole@uniba.it SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Authors: Rosella Mechelli; Caterina Manzari; Claudia Policano; Anita Annese; Ernesto Picardi; Renato Umeton; Arianna Fornasiero; Anna Maria D'Erchia; Maria Chiara Buscarinu; Cristina Agliardi; Viviana Annibali; Barbara Serafini; Barbara Rosicarelli; Silvia Romano; Daniela F Angelini; Vito A G Ricigliano; Fabio Buttari; Luca Battistini; Diego Centonze; Franca R Guerini; Sandra D'Alfonso; Graziano Pesole; Marco Salvetti; Giovanni Ristori Journal: Neurology Date: 2015-03-04 Impact factor: 9.910