Ruiz Reche, AngelSrivastava, AkankshaIndi, Joel A.de la Rubia, IvanEyras Jiménez, Eduardo2020-06-172020-06-172019Ruiz-Reche A, Srivastava A, Indi JA, de la Rubia I, Eyras E. ReorientExpress: reference-free orientation of nanopore cDNA reads with deep learning. Genome Biol. 2019; 20(1):260. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1884-z1474-7596http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44994We describe ReorientExpress, a method to perform reference-free orientation of transcriptomic long sequencing reads. ReorientExpress uses deep learning to correctly predict the orientation of the majority of reads, and in particular when trained on a closely related species or in combination with read clustering. ReorientExpress enables long-read transcriptomics in non-model organisms and samples without a genome reference without using additional technologies and is available at https://github.com/comprna/reorientexpress.application/pdfeng© The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.ReorientExpress: reference-free orientation of nanopore cDNA reads with deep learninginfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1884-zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess