A survey of the sorghum transcriptome using single-molecule long reads

Abdel-Ghany, S.E. and Hamilton, M. and Jacobi, J.L. and Ngam, P. and etl, . (2015) A survey of the sorghum transcriptome using single-molecule long reads. Nature Communications. pp. 1-11.

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Abstract

Alternative splicing and alternative polyadenylation (APA) of pre-mRNAs greatly contribute to transcriptome diversity, coding capacity of a genome and gene regulatory mechanisms in eukaryotes. Second-generation sequencing technologies have been extensively used to analyse transcriptomes. However, a major limitation of short-read data is that it is difficult to accurately predict full-length splice isoforms. Here we sequenced the sorghum transcriptome using Pacific Biosciences single-molecule real-time long-read isoform sequencing and developed a pipeline called TAPIS (Transcriptome Analysis Pipeline for Isoform Sequencing) to identify full-length splice isoforms and APA sites. Our analysis reveals transcriptome-wide full-length isoforms at an unprecedented scale with over 11,000 novel splice isoforms. Additionally, we uncover APA ofB11,000 expressed genes and more than 2,100 novel genes. These results greatly enhance sorghum gene annotations and aid in studying gene regulation in this important bioenergy crop. The TAPIS pipeline will serve as a useful tool to analyse Iso-Seq data from any organism.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sorghum, transcriptome,biosciences, bioenergy crop,technologies,genome
Author Affiliation:	Department of Biology, Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
Subjects:	Crop Improvement
Divisions:	Sorghum
Depositing User:	Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2016 10:12
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2016 10:12
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/14453

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