PARalyzer: definition of RNA binding sites from PAR-CLIP short-read sequence data

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Item Type:	Article
Title:	PARalyzer: definition of RNA binding sites from PAR-CLIP short-read sequence data
Creators Name:	Corcoran, D.L., Georgiev, S., Mukherjee, N., Gottwein, E., Skalsky, R.L., Keene, J.D. and Ohler, U.
Abstract:	Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) protocols have made it possible to identify transcriptome-wide RNA-protein interaction sites. In particular, PAR-CLIP utilizes a photoactivatable nucleoside for more efficient crosslinking. We present an approach, centered on the novel PARalyzer tool, for mapping high-confidence sites from PAR-CLIP deep-sequencing data. We show that PARalyzer delineates sites with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Motif finding identifies the sequence preferences of RNA-binding proteins, as well as seed-matches for highly expressed microRNAs when profiling Argonaute proteins. Our study describes tailored analytical methods and provides guidelines for future efforts to utilize high-throughput sequencing in RNA biology. PARalyzer is available at http://www.genome.duke.edu/labs/ohler/research/PARalyzer/.
Keywords:	Argonaute Proteins, Binding Sites, Genetic Databases, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Immunoprecipitation, Linear Models, MicroRNAs, RNA, RNA Sequence Analysis, Signal-To-Noise Ratio, Transcriptome
Source:	Genome Biology
ISSN:	1465-6914
Publisher:	BioMed Central
Volume:	12
Number:	8
Page Range:	R79
Date:	18 August 2011
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-8-r79
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