Barnacle: Detecting and characterizing tandem duplications and fusions in transcriptome assemblies
Background: Chimeric transcripts, including partial and internal tandem duplications (PTDs, ITDs) and gene fusions, are important in the detection, prognosis, and treatment of human cancers.Results: We describe Barnacle, a production-grade analysis tool that detects such chimeras in de novo assembli...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46752 |