Genome-Guided Transcriptome Assembly in the Age of Next-Generation Sequencing

Next generation sequencing technologies provide unprecedented power to explore the repertoire of genes and their alternative splice variants, collectively defining the transcriptome of a species in great detail. However, assembling the short reads into full-length gene and transcript models presents significant computational challenges. We review current algorithms for assembling transcripts and genes from next generation sequencing reads aligned to a reference genome, and lay out areas for future improvements.

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