ExceRpt: A Comprehensive Analytic Platform for Extracellular RNA Profiling.

ABSTRACT: Small RNA sequencing has been widely adopted to study the diversity of extracellular RNAs (exRNAs) in biofluids; however, the analysis of exRNA samples can be challenging: they are vulnerable to contamination and artifacts from different isolation techniques, present in lower concentrations than cellular RNA, and occasionally of exogenous origin. To address these challenges, we present exceRpt, the exRNA-processing toolkit of the NIH Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium (ERCC). exceRpt is structured as a cascade of filters and quantifications prioritized based on one's confidence in a given set of annotated RNAs. It generates quality control reports and abundance estimates for RNA biotypes. It is also capable of characterizing mappings to exogenous genomes, which, in turn, can be use

SUBMITTER: Rozowsky J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079576 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature