BIOSS
Centre for Biological Signalling Studies

TSSi - An R package for transcription start site identification from 5' mRNA tag data

17.04.2012

Kreutz C, Gehring JS, Lang D, Reski R, Timmer J, Rensing SA

Bioinformatics. 2012, 28: 1641-1642

Bioinformatics          online article

Next generation sequencing allows to capture 5' ends of mRNA with high throughput. Here we present a peak detection algorithm that allows to predict transcription start sites (TSSs) from 5' mRNA tag data. The method is available as an R package, TSSi.