Assembly, assessment and availability of de novo generated transcriptomes

Moreton, Joanna, Izquierdo, Abril and Emes, Richard D. (2016) Assembly, assessment and availability of de novo generated transcriptomes. Frontiers in Genetics, 6 . 361/1-361/9. ISSN 1664-8021

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Abstract

De novo assembly of a complete transcriptome without the need for a guiding reference genome is attractive, particularly where the cost and complexity of generating a eukaryote genome is prohibitive. The transcriptome should not however be seen as just a quick and cheap alternative to building a complete genome. Transcriptomics allows the understanding and comparison of spatial and temporal samples within an organism and allows surveying of multiple individuals or closely related species. De novo assembly in theory allows the building of a complete transcriptome without any prior knowledge of the genome it also allows the discovery of alternate splice forms of coding RNAs and also non-coding RNAs, which are often missed by proteomic approaches or are incompletely annotated in genome studies. The limitations of the method are that generation of a truly complete assembly is unlikely and so we require some method for assessment of the quality and appropriateness of a generated transcriptome. Whilst no single consensus pipeline or tools is agreed as optimal, various algorithms and easy to use software do exist making transcriptome generation a more common approach. With this expansion of data, questions still exist relating to how do we make these datasets fully discoverable, comparable and most useful to understand complex biological systems?

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/773153
Keywords: de novo transcriptome assembly, high-throughput sequencing, assessment, availability, annotation
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00361
Depositing User: Emes, Richard
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2017 12:10
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:32
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/40091

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