satuRn: Scalable analysis of differential transcript usage for bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing applications [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

oleh: Koen Van den Berge, Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup, Jeroen Gilis, Lieven Clement

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: F1000 Research Ltd 2022-08-01

Deskripsi

Alternative splicing produces multiple functional transcripts from a single gene. Dysregulation of splicing is known to be associated with disease and as a hallmark of cancer. Existing tools for differential transcript usage (DTU) analysis either lack in performance, cannot account for complex experimental designs or do not scale to massive single-cell transcriptome sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets. We introduce satuRn, a fast and flexible quasi-binomial generalized linear modelling framework that is on par with the best performing DTU methods from the bulk RNA-seq realm, while providing good false discovery rate control, addressing complex experimental designs, and scaling to scRNA-seq applications.