{"id":155728,"date":"2023-01-18T04:27:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-produce-first-ever-toolkit-for-rna-sequencing-analysis-using-a-pantranscriptome"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:27:18","slug":"researchers-produce-first-ever-toolkit-for-rna-sequencing-analysis-using-a-pantranscriptome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/researchers-produce-first-ever-toolkit-for-rna-sequencing-analysis-using-a-pantranscriptome","title":{"rendered":"Researchers produce first-ever toolkit for RNA sequencing analysis using a \u2018pantranscriptome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-produce-first-ever-toolkit-for-rna-sequencing-analysis-using-a-pantranscriptome2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analyzing a person\u2019s gene expression requires mapping their RNA landscape to a standard reference to gain insight into the degree to which genes are \u201cturned on\u201d and perform functions in the body. But researchers can run into issues when the reference does not provide enough information to allow for accurate mapping, an issue known as reference bias.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper published in the journal <i>Nature Methods<\/i>, researchers at UC Santa Cruz introduce the first-ever method for analyzing RNA sequencing data genome-wide using a \u201cpantranscriptome,\u201d which combines a transcriptome and a pangenome\u2014a reference that contains <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic material<\/a> from a cohort of diverse individuals, rather than just a single linear strand.<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists led by UCSC Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Benedict Paten have released a toolkit that allows researchers to map an individual\u2019s RNA data to a much richer reference, addressing reference bias and leading to much more accurate mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing a person\u2019s gene expression requires mapping their RNA landscape to a standard reference to gain insight into the degree to which genes are \u201cturned on\u201d and perform functions in the body. But researchers can run into issues when the reference does not provide enough information to allow for accurate mapping, an issue known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}