Marc W Schmid1, Ueli Grossniklaus1. 1. Institute of Plant Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract
SUMMARY: Analysis of differential gene expression by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is frequently done using feature counts, i.e. the number of reads mapping to a gene. However, commonly used count algorithms (e.g. HTSeq) do not address the problem of reads aligning with multiple locations in the genome (multireads) or reads aligning with positions where two or more genes overlap (ambiguous reads). Rcount specifically addresses these issues. Furthermore, Rcount allows the user to assign priorities to certain feature types (e.g. higher priority for protein-coding genes compared to rRNA-coding genes) or to add flanking regions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Rcount provides a fast and easy-to-use graphical user interface requiring no command line or programming skills. It is implemented in C++ using the SeqAn (www.seqan.de) and the Qt libraries (qt-project.org). Source code and 64 bit binaries for (Ubuntu) Linux, Windows (7) and MacOSX are released under the GPLv3 license and are freely available on github.com/MWSchmid/Rcount. CONTACT: marcschmid@gmx.ch SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Test data, genome annotation files, useful Python and R scripts and a step-by-step user guide (including run-time and memory usage tests) are available on github.com/MWSchmid/Rcount.
SUMMARY: Analysis of differential gene expression by RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is frequently done using feature counts, i.e. the number of reads mapping to a gene. However, commonly used count algorithms (e.g. HTSeq) do not address the problem of reads aligning with multiple locations in the genome (multireads) or reads aligning with positions where two or more genes overlap (ambiguous reads). Rcount specifically addresses these issues. Furthermore, Rcount allows the user to assign priorities to certain feature types (e.g. higher priority for protein-coding genes compared to rRNA-coding genes) or to add flanking regions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Rcount provides a fast and easy-to-use graphical user interface requiring no command line or programming skills. It is implemented in C++ using the SeqAn (www.seqan.de) and the Qt libraries (qt-project.org). Source code and 64 bit binaries for (Ubuntu) Linux, Windows (7) and MacOSX are released under the GPLv3 license and are freely available on github.com/MWSchmid/Rcount. CONTACT: marcschmid@gmx.ch SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Test data, genome annotation files, useful Python and R scripts and a step-by-step user guide (including run-time and memory usage tests) are available on github.com/MWSchmid/Rcount.
Authors: Billy Zeng; Benjamin S Glicksberg; Patrick Newbury; Evgeny Chekalin; Jing Xing; Ke Liu; Anita Wen; Caven Chow; Bin Chen Journal: Nat Protoc Date: 2020-12-23 Impact factor: 13.491
Authors: Simon G Krattinger; Joohyun Kang; Stephanie Bräunlich; Rainer Boni; Harsh Chauhan; Liselotte L Selter; Mark D Robinson; Marc W Schmid; Elena Wiederhold; Goetz Hensel; Jochen Kumlehn; Justine Sucher; Enrico Martinoia; Beat Keller Journal: New Phytol Date: 2019-04-22 Impact factor: 10.151