Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 526 Campus Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Department of Biology, Syracuse University, 107 College Place, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
G3 (Bethesda). 2023 Jun 1;13(6). doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad092.
Capturing and sequencing small RNAs is standard practice; however, identification of a group of these small RNAs-small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)-has been more difficult. We present smalldisco, a command-line tool for small interfering RNA discovery and annotation from small RNA-seq datasets. smalldisco can distinguish short reads that map antisense to an annotated genomic feature (e.g. exons or mRNAs), annotate these siRNAs, and quantify their abundance. smalldisco also uses the program Tailor to quantify 3' nontemplated nucleotides of siRNAs or any small RNA species. smalldisco and supporting documentation are available for download from GitHub (https://github.com/ianvcaldas/smalldisco) and archived in Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7799621).
捕获和测序小 RNA 是标准操作;然而,一组小 RNA(小干扰 RNA(siRNA))的鉴定更为困难。我们提出了 smalldisco,这是一种用于从小 RNA-seq 数据集中发现和注释小干扰 RNA 的命令行工具。smalldisco 可以区分与注释的基因组特征(例如外显子或 mRNAs)反义映射的短读段,注释这些 siRNA,并定量它们的丰度。smalldisco 还使用程序 Tailor 来定量 siRNA 或任何小 RNA 种类的 3'非模板核苷酸。smalldisco 和支持文档可从 GitHub(https://github.com/ianvcaldas/smalldisco)下载,并在 Zenodo(https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7799621)存档。