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Detrimental effects of duplicate reads and low complexity regions on RNA- and ChIP-seq data

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, December 2015
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Title
Detrimental effects of duplicate reads and low complexity regions on RNA- and ChIP-seq data
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BMC Bioinformatics, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-16-s13-s10
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Mikhail G Dozmorov, Indra Adrianto, Cory B Giles, Edmund Glass, Stuart B Glenn, Courtney Montgomery, Kathy L Sivils, Lorin E Olson, Tomoaki Iwayama, Willard M Freeman, Christopher J Lessard, Jonathan D Wren

Abstract

Adapter trimming and removal of duplicate reads are common practices in next-generation sequencing pipelines. Sequencing reads ambiguously mapped to repetitive and low complexity regions can also be problematic for accurate assessment of the biological signal, yet their impact on sequencing data has not received much attention. We investigate how trimming the adapters, removing duplicates, and filtering out reads overlapping low complexity regions influence the significance of biological signal in RNA- and ChIP-seq experiments. We assessed the effect of data processing steps on the alignment statistics and the functional enrichment analysis results of RNA- and ChIP-seq data. We compared differentially processed RNA-seq data with matching microarray data on the same patient samples to determine whether changes in pre-processing improved correlation between the two. We have developed a simple tool to remove low complexity regions, RepeatSoaker, available at https://github.com/mdozmorov/RepeatSoaker, and tested its effect on the alignment statistics and the results of the enrichment analyses. Both adapter trimming and duplicate removal moderately improved the strength of biological signals in RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data. Aggressive filtering of reads overlapping with low complexity regions, as defined by RepeatMasker, further improved the strength of biological signals, and the correlation between RNA-seq and microarray gene expression data. Adapter trimming and duplicates removal, coupled with filtering out reads overlapping low complexity regions, is shown to increase the quality and reliability of detecting biological signals in RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 108 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 29%
Researcher 29 26%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 6 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 5%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 6 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 42 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 39 35%
Computer Science 5 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 3%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 12 11%
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