HPC-REDItools: a novel HPC-aware tool for improved large scale RNA-editing analysis

Abstract Background RNA editing is a widespread co-/post-transcriptional mechanism that alters primary RNA sequences through the modification of specific nucleotides and it can increase both the transcriptome and proteome diversity. The automatic detection of RNA-editing from RNA-seq data is computa...

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Main Authors: Tiziano Flati, Silvia Gioiosa, Nicola Spallanzani, Ilario Tagliaferri, Maria Angela Diroma, Graziano Pesole, Giovanni Chillemi, Ernesto Picardi, Tiziana Castrignanò
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03562-x
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Summary:Abstract Background RNA editing is a widespread co-/post-transcriptional mechanism that alters primary RNA sequences through the modification of specific nucleotides and it can increase both the transcriptome and proteome diversity. The automatic detection of RNA-editing from RNA-seq data is computational intensive and limited to small data sets, thus preventing a reliable genome-wide characterisation of such process. Results In this work we introduce HPC-REDItools, an upgraded tool for accurate RNA-editing events discovery from large dataset repositories. Availability: https://github.com/BioinfoUNIBA/REDItools2 . Conclusions HPC-REDItools is dramatically faster than the previous version, REDItools, enabling big-data analysis by means of a MPI-based implementation and scaling almost linearly with the number of available cores.
ISSN:1471-2105