Characterization of Circular RNA Alternative Splicing
CIRCexplorer2 will systematically characterize two types of alternative back-splicing events (alternative 5' back-splice site and alternative 3' back-splice site) and four types of alternative splicing events (cassette exon, intron retention, alternative 5' splice site and alternative 3' splice site) for circular RNAs.
Command
CIRCexplorer2 denovo -r hg19_ref_all.txt -g hg19.fa --as -a pAplus_tophat circ_out > CIRCexplorer2_denovo.log
Notes:
- It requires alignment results (set using
-a
) of poly(A)+ RNA-seq derived from the same source of corresponding poly(A)−/ribo− RNA-seq so that it will extract circular RNA predominate alternative (back-)splicing events after comparing poly(A)−/ribo− RNA-seq with poly(A)+ RNA-seq. CIRCexplorer2 denovo
will create a directorydenovo
under thecirc_out
directory by default. All the alternative (back-)splicing information of circular RNAs will be created under the directorydenovo
. Each alternative (back-)splicing event has a series of metrics to evaluate, and you could sort out relevant events according to your requirements.- See denovo for detailed information about
CIRCexplorer2 denovo
.