IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR: analysis of changes in genome-wide patterns of alternative splicing and its functional consequences

Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup, Albin Sandelin

Abstract

Summary: Alternative splicing is an important mechanism involved in health and disease. Recent work highlights the importance of investigating genome-wide changes in splicing patterns and the subsequent functional consequences. Current computational methods only support such analysis on a gene-by-gene basis. Therefore, we extended IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR R library to enable analysis of genome-wide changes in specific types of alternative splicing and predicted functional consequences of the resulting isoform switches. As a case study, we analyzed RNA-seq data from The Cancer Genome Atlas and found systematic changes in alternative splicing and the consequences of the associated isoform switches. Availability and implementation: Windows, Linux and Mac OS: http://bioconductor.org/packages/IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Original languageEnglish
JournalBioinformatics
Volume35
Issue number21
Pages (from-to)4469-4471
ISSN1367-4803
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2019

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