RNA Editing Detection in HPC Infrastructures

Methods Mol Biol. 2021:2284:253-270. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1307-8_14.

Abstract

RNA editing by A-to-I deamination is a relevant co/posttranscriptional modification carried out by ADAR enzymes. In humans, it has pivotal cellular effects and its deregulation has been linked to a variety of human disorders including neurological and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Despite its biological relevance, the detection of RNA editing variants in large transcriptome sequencing experiments (RNAseq) is yet a challenging computational task. To drastically reduce computing times we have developed a novel REDItools version able to identify A-to-I events in huge amount of RNAseq data employing High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures.Here we show how to use REDItools v2 in HPC systems.

Keywords: A-to-I editing; Bioinformatics; DNAseq; Deep sequencing; Genomics; HPC; MPI; RNA editing; RNAseq; Transcriptomics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Computing Methodologies*
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Datasets as Topic
  • Genomics
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / genetics
  • Nervous System Diseases / genetics
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases / genetics
  • RNA Editing / physiology*
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA / methods*
  • Software
  • Transcriptome