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proTRAC - a software for probabilistic piRNA cluster detection, visualization and analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, January 2012
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Title
proTRAC - a software for probabilistic piRNA cluster detection, visualization and analysis
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-13-5
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David Rosenkranz, Hans Zischler

Abstract

Throughout the metazoan lineage, typically gonadal expressed Piwi proteins and their guiding piRNAs (~26-32nt in length) form a protective mechanism of RNA interference directed against the propagation of transposable elements (TEs). Most piRNAs are generated from genomic piRNA clusters. Annotation of experimentally obtained piRNAs from small RNA/cDNA-libraries and detection of genomic piRNA clusters are crucial for a thorough understanding of the still enigmatic piRNA pathway, especially in an evolutionary context. Currently, detection of piRNA clusters relies on bioinformatics rather than detection and sequencing of primary piRNA cluster transcripts and the stringency of the methods applied in different studies differs considerably. Additionally, not all important piRNA cluster characteristics were taken into account during bioinformatic processing. Depending on the applied method this can lead to: i) an accidentally underrepresentation of TE related piRNAs, ii) overlook duplicated clusters harboring few or no single-copy loci and iii) false positive annotation of clusters that are in fact just accumulations of multi-copy loci corresponding to frequently mapped reads, but are not transcribed to piRNA precursors.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Germany 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 138 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 38 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 25%
Student > Master 18 12%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 6%
Other 19 13%
Unknown 14 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 71 48%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 40 27%
Computer Science 8 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 17 12%
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#7,622,789
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#2,932
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#69,793
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#40
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