A general definition and nomenclature for alternative splicing events
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- dc.contributor.author Guigó Serra, Rodericca
- dc.contributor.author Sammeth, Michaelca
- dc.contributor.author Foissac, Sylvainca
- dc.date.accessioned 2010-06-10T14:41:21Z
- dc.date.available 2010-06-10T14:41:21Z
- dc.date.issued 2008ca
- dc.description.abstract Understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the regulation of the transcriptome present in eukaryotic cells is/none of the most challenging tasks in the postgenomic era. In this regard, alternative splicing (AS) is a key phenomenon/ncontributing to the production of different mature transcripts from the same primary RNA sequence. As a plethora of/ndifferent transcript forms is available in databases, a first step to uncover the biology that drives AS is to identify the/ndifferent types of reflected splicing variation. In this work, we present a general definition of the AS event along with a/nnotation system that involves the relative positions of the splice sites. This nomenclature univocally and dynamically assigns/na specific ‘‘AS code’’ to every possible pattern of splicing variation. On the basis of this definition and the corresponding/ncodes, we have developed a computational tool (AStalavista) that automatically characterizes the complete landscape of AS/nevents in a given transcript annotation of a genome, thus providing a platform to investigate the transcriptome diversity/nacross genes, chromosomes, and species. Our analysis reveals that a substantial part—in human more than a quarter—of/nthe observed splicing variations are ignored in common classification pipelines. We have used AStalavista to investigate and/nto compare the AS landscape of different reference annotation sets in human and in other metazoan species and found that/nproportions of AS events change substantially depending on the annotation protocol, species-specific attributes, and/ncoding constraints acting on the transcripts. The AStalavista system therefore provides a general framework to conduct/nspecific studies investigating the occurrence, impact, and regulation of AS.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work has been funded by a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) postdoctoral fellowship to MS. Further support has been provided by grants from the NHGRI Encode project, the European Union ATD project, and the Spanish Plan Nacional de I+D.
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- dc.identifier.citation Sammeth M, Foissac S, Guigó R. A general definition and nomenclature for alternative splicing events. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008;4(8):e1000147. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000147
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000147
- dc.identifier.issn 1553-734X
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/6241
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)ca
- dc.relation.ispartof PLoS Computational Biology 2008;4(8):e1000147
- dc.rights (c) 2008 Sammeth et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- dc.subject.keyword Animals
- dc.subject.keyword Bees
- dc.subject.keyword Caenorhabditis elegans
- dc.subject.keyword Cattle
- dc.subject.keyword Chickens
- dc.subject.keyword Classification
- dc.subject.keyword Cluster analysis
- dc.subject.keyword Databases
- dc.subject.keyword Genetic
- dc.subject.keyword Dogs
- dc.subject.keyword Drosophila melanogaster
- dc.subject.keyword Gene expression profiling
- dc.subject.keyword Genomics
- dc.subject.keyword Humans
- dc.subject.keyword Mice
- dc.subject.keyword Pan troglodytes
- dc.subject.keyword Rats
- dc.subject.keyword RNA Splice Sites
- dc.subject.keyword Sequence analysis
- dc.subject.keyword RNA
- dc.subject.keyword Species specificity
- dc.subject.keyword Terminology as topic
- dc.subject.keyword Xenopus
- dc.subject.keyword Zebrafish
- dc.subject.other Factors de transcripció
- dc.subject.other Cèl·lules eucariotes -- Aspectes genètics
- dc.title A general definition and nomenclature for alternative splicing eventsca
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