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 asse...
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Language: | English |
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BioMed Central Ltd.
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81361 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2315-0768 |