Biclustering of transcriptome sequencing data reveals human tissue-specific circular RNAs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging evidence has been experimentally confirmed the tissue-specific expression of circRNAs (circRNAs). Global identification of human tissue-specific circRNAs is crucial for the functionality study, which facilitates the discovery of circRNAs for potential diagnostic biomarkers.

Results

In this study, circRNA back-splicing junctions were identified from 465 publicly available transcriptome sequencing samples. The number of reads aligned to these identified junctions was normalized with the read length and sequence depth for each sample. We generated 66 models representing enriched circRNAs among human tissue transcriptome through biclustering algorithm. The result provides thousands of newly identified human tissue-specific circRNAs.

Conclusions

This re

SUBMITTER: Liu YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780853 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature