PIPE-CLIP: a comprehensive online tool for CLIP-seq data analysis

Genome Biol. 2014 Jan 22;15(1):R18. doi: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-1-r18.

Abstract

CLIP-seq is widely used to study genome-wide interactions between RNA-binding proteins and RNAs. However, there are few tools available to analyze CLIP-seq data, thus creating a bottleneck to the implementation of this methodology. Here, we present PIPE-CLIP, a Galaxy framework-based comprehensive online pipeline for reliable analysis of data generated by three types of CLIP-seq protocol: HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP and iCLIP. PIPE-CLIP provides both data processing and statistical analysis to determine candidate cross-linking regions, which are comparable to those regions identified from the original studies or using existing computational tools. PIPE-CLIP is available at http://pipeclip.qbrc.org/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites / genetics
  • Genome
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Humans
  • Immunoprecipitation / methods*
  • Mice
  • RNA / genetics
  • RNA / metabolism
  • RNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA / methods*
  • Software*

Substances

  • RNA-Binding Proteins
  • RNA