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Spliceogen: an integrative, scalable tool for the discovery of splice-altering variants

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MOTIVATION In silico prediction tools are essential for identifying variants which create or disrupt cis splicing motifs. However, there are limited options for genome-scale discovery of splice-altering variants. RESULTS We… Click to show full abstract

MOTIVATION In silico prediction tools are essential for identifying variants which create or disrupt cis splicing motifs. However, there are limited options for genome-scale discovery of splice-altering variants. RESULTS We have developed Spliceogen, a highly scalable pipeline integrating predictions from some of the individually best performing models for splice motif prediction: MaxEntScan, GeneSplicer, ESRseq and Branchpointer. AVAILABILITY Spliceogen is available as a command line tool which accepts VCF/BED inputs and handles both single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and indels (https://github.com/VCCRI/Spliceogen). SNV databases with prediction scores are also available, covering all possible SNVs at all genomic positions within all Gencode-annotated multi-exon transcripts (https://github.com/VCCRI/Spliceogen/tree/master/database). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Keywords: tool; altering variants; splice altering; discovery splice

Journal Title: Bioinformatics
Year Published: 2019

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