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RNA$Seq bioinformatic How,RNA$seq,data,is,generated Isolate*Transcript*RNA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA AAAAAA Fragment*cDNA Size*SelecOon Illumina*Sequencing*of*each*end CAAA AAAA GGAG CTGG GAAA Reverse*TranscripOon CAGG based on Illumina approach *strand-specific RNA-seq protocols exist for both Illumina and SOLiD Slide complements of Andrew McPherson 

RNA isolation ‣ Treat your samples well ‣ Solubilization ‣ Recovery ‣ Normalization and Enrichment Guanidinium thiocyanate 

Normalization & Enrichment Adiconis et al. 2013 

Library preparation ‣ 1st strand synthesis ‣ 2nd strand synthesis ‣ Stranded libraries 

oligo-dT vs. random priming 

2nd strand synthesis ‣ RNA displacement ‣ NuGen ‣ SMART: oligo-dG/strand switching 

Stranded libraries 

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Single Cell RNAseq Saliba et al. 2014 

RNA-seq data analysis • Can be analyzed in many different ways depending on goals of the experiment, what other data is available, et cetera 

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Align-then-assemble or de novo? NA-Seq data enable de novo reconstruction of the transcriptome. cognized ery1 and ation of ompared parallel as vastly quencing ranscript ntroduce t capture icing in describe multane- ification udy gene ferentia- a similar re called tomes of lete gene ntergenic has been cently it RNA-Seq reads Align reads to genome Assemble transcripts de novo Assemble transcripts from spliced alignments More abundant Less abundant Align transcripts to genome Genome 

• Align-then-assemble: potentially more sensitive, but requires a reference genome, confounded by structural variation • de novo: likely to only capture highly expressed transcripts, but does not require a reference genome, robust to variation 

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BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER Vol. 25 no. 9 2009, pages 1105–1111 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120 Sequence analysis TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq Cole Trapnell1,∗, Lior Pachter2 and Steven L. Salzberg1 1Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 and 2Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Received on October 23, 2008; revised on February 24, 2009; accepted on February 26, 2009 Advance Access publication March 16, 2009 Associate Editor: Ivo Hofacker ABSTRACT Motivation: A new protocol for sequencing the messenger RNA in a cell, known as RNA-Seq, generates millions of short sequence fragments in a single run. These fragments, or ‘reads’, can be used to measure levels of gene expression and to identify novel splice variants of genes. However, current software for aligning RNA-Seq data to a genome relies on known splice junctions and cannot identify novel ones. TopHat is an efficient read-mapping algorithm designed to align reads from an RNA-Seq experiment to a reference genome without relying on known splice sites. Results: We mapped the RNA-Seq reads from a recent mammalian RNA-Seq experiment and recovered more than 72% of the splice junctions reported by the annotation-based software from that study, along with nearly 20 000 previously unreported junctions. The TopHat pipeline is much faster than previous systems, mapping nearly 2.2 million reads per CPU hour, which is sufficient to process an entire RNA-Seq experiment in less than a day on a standard desktop computer. We describe several challenges unique to ab initio splice site discovery from RNA-Seq reads that will require further algorithm measurements of expression at comparable cost (Marioni et al., 2008). The major drawback of RNA-Seq over conventional EST sequencing is that the sequences themselves are much shorter, typically 25–50 nt versus several hundred nucleotides with older technologies. One of the critical steps in an RNA-Seq experiment is that of mapping the NGS ‘reads’ to the reference transcriptome. However, because the transcriptomes are incomplete even for well- studied species such as human and mouse, RNA-Seq analyses are forced to map to the reference genome as a proxy for the transcriptome. Mapping to the genome achieves two major objectives of RNA-Seq experiments: (1) Identification of novel transcripts from the locations of regions covered in the mapping. (2) Estimation of the abundance of the transcripts from their depth of coverage in the mapping. Because RNA-Seq reads are short, the first task is challenging. 

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TopHat chr9: STS Markers 26559200 26559300 26559400 26559500 brain RNA STS Markers on Genetic and Radiation Hybrid Maps UCSC Gene Predictions Based on RefSeq, UniProt, GenBank, and Comparative Genomics RefSeq Genes Mouse mRNAs from GenBank B3gat1 B3gat1 B3gat1 B3gat1 B3gat1 AK082739 AK220561 AK044599 AK041316 AB055781 AK003020 BC034655 brain RNA 2.34 _ 0.04 _ Fig. 2. An intron entirely overlapped by the 5′-UTR of another transcript. Both isoforms are present in the brain tissue RNA sample. The top track is the normalized uniquely mappable read coverage reported by ERANGE for this region (Mortazavi et al., 2008). The lack of a large coverage gap causes TopHat to report a single island containing both exons. TopHat looks for introns within single islands in order to detect this junction. Use a coverage statistic to identify pairing sites within single islands 

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Transcriptome reconstruction 

• We now have • Predicted exons expressed in the sample • Predicted splice junctions expressed in the sample • Does this tell us what isoforms are present? 

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L E T T E R S High-throughput mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) promises simultaneous transcript discovery and abundance estimation1–3. However, this would require algorithms that are not restricted by prior gene annotations and that account for alternative transcription and splicing. Here we introduce such algorithms in an open-source software program called Cufflinks. To test Cufflinks, we sequenced and analyzed >430 million paired 75-bp RNA-Seq reads from a mouse myoblast cell line over a differentiation time series. We detected 13,692 known transcripts and 3,724 previously unannotated ones, 62% of which are supported by independent expression data or by homologous genes in other species. Over the time series, 330 genes showed complete switches in the dominant transcription (75 bp in this work versus 25 bp in our previous work) and pairs of reads from both ends of each RNA fragment can reduce uncertainty in assigning reads to alternative splice variants12. To produce use- ful transcript-level abundance estimates from paired-end RNA-Seq data, we developed a new algorithm that can identify complete novel transcripts and probabilistically assign reads to isoforms. For our initial demonstration of Cufflinks, we performed a time course of paired-end 75-bp RNA-Seq on a well-studied model of skeletal muscle development, the C2C12 mouse myoblast cell line13 (see Online Methods). Regulated RNA expression of key transcrip- tion factors drives myogenesis, and the execution of the differentia- tion process involves changes in expression of hundreds of genes14,15. Previous studies have not measured global transcript isoform expres- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation Cole Trapnell1–3, Brian A Williams4, Geo Pertea2, Ali Mortazavi4, Gordon Kwan4, Marijke J van Baren5, Steven L Salzberg1,2, Barbara J Wold4 & Lior Pachter3,6,7 

ons the multiple time point novel isoforms were tiled by high-identity a d b Map paired cDNA fragment sequences to genome TopHat Cufflinks Spliced fragment alignments Abundance estimation Assembly Mutually incompatible fragments m n an 

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