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FRASER

This is the development version of FRASER; for the stable release version, see FRASER.

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Find RAre Splicing Events in RNA-Seq Data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Detection of rare aberrant splicing events in transcriptome profiles. Read count ratio expectations are modeled by an autoencoder to control for confounding factors in the data. Given these expectations, the ratios are assumed to follow a beta-binomial distribution with a junction specific dispersion. Outlier events are then identified as read-count ratios that deviate significantly from this distribution. FRASER is able to detect alternative splicing, but also intron retention. The package aims to support diagnostics in the field of rare diseases where RNA-seq is performed to identify aberrant splicing defects.

Author: Christian Mertes [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-1091-205X , Ines Scheller [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0003-4533-7857 , Karoline Lutz [ctb], Ata Jadid Ahari [ctb] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0004-1577-7733 , Vicente Yepez [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0001-7916-3643 , Julien Gagneur [aut] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-8924-8365

Maintainer: Christian Mertes <mertes at in.tum.de>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("FRASER")):

Christian Mertes, Ines Scheller, Vicente Yepez, Julien Gagneur. FRASER: Find RAre Splicing Events in RNA-Seq Data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.FRASER, R package version 2.9.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/FRASER.

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Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("FRASER")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("FRASER")
FRASER: Find RAre Splicing Events in RNA-seq Data PDF R Script
Reference ManualPDF
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Details

biocViews AlternativeSplicing, Coverage, Genetics, RNASeq, Sequencing, Software
Version2.9.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.11 (R-4.0) (6.5 years)
License file LICENSE
Depends BiocParallel, Rsamtools, SummarizedExperiment
Imports AnnotationDbi, BBmisc, Biobase, BiocGenerics, biomaRt, BSgenome, cowplot, data.table, DelayedArray (>= 0.5.11), DelayedMatrixStats, extraDistr, generics, GenomeInfoDb, GenomicAlignments, GenomicFeatures, GenomicRanges, IRanges, grDevices, ggplot2, ggrepel, HDF5Array, matrixStats, methods, OUTRIDER, pcaMethods, pheatmap, plotly, PRROC, RColorBrewer, rhdf5, Rsubread, R.utils, S4Vectors, stats, tibble, tools, txdbmaker, utils, VGAM, RMTstat, pracma
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URLhttps://github.com/gagneurlab/FRASER
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/gagneurlab/FRASER/issues
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Suggests magick, BiocStyle, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, covr, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, org.Hs.eg.db, rtracklayer, SGSeq, ggbio, biovizBase, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.NCBI.GRCh38, BSgenome.Hsapiens.1000genomes.hs37d5, BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19
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Source Package FRASER_2.9.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) FRASER_2.9.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) FRASER_2.9.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) FRASER_2.9.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/FRASER
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