PEPPRO: quality control and processing of nascent RNA profiling data

Genome Biol. 2021 May 15;22(1):155. doi: 10.1186/s13059-021-02349-4.

Abstract

Nascent RNA profiling is growing in popularity; however, there is no standard analysis pipeline to uniformly process the data and assess quality. Here, we introduce PEPPRO, a comprehensive, scalable workflow for GRO-seq, PRO-seq, and ChRO-seq data. PEPPRO produces uniformly processed output files for downstream analysis and assesses adapter abundance, RNA integrity, library complexity, nascent RNA purity, and run-on efficiency. PEPPRO is restartable and fault-tolerant, records copious logs, and provides a web-based project report. PEPPRO can be run locally or using a cluster, providing a portable first step for genomic nascent RNA analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Exons / genetics
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Genome, Human
  • Humans
  • Introns / genetics
  • K562 Cells
  • Quality Control
  • RNA / genetics*
  • RNA / standards*
  • Software*

Substances

  • RNA