FlexiMAP: a regression-based method for discovering differential alternative polyadenylation events in standard RNA-seq data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

We present flexible Modeling of Alternative PolyAdenylation (flexiMAP), a new beta-regression-based method implemented in R, for discovering differential alternative polyadenylation events in standard RNA-seq data.

Results

We show, using both simulated and real data, that flexiMAP exhibits a good balance between specificity and sensitivity and compares favourably to existing methods, especially at low fold changes. In addition, the tests on simulated data reveal some hitherto unrecognized caveats of existing methods. Importantly, flexiMAP allows modeling of multiple known covariates that often confound the results of RNA-seq data analysis.

Availability and implementation

The flexiMAP R package is available at: https://github.com/kszkop/flexiMAP. Scripts and

SUBMITTER: Szkop KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8208744 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature