Difference between revisions of "Kallisto"
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It's the new (2015) way of evaluating gene expression abundance from NGS short reads. | It's the new (2015) way of evaluating gene expression abundance from NGS short reads. | ||
It is considerably faster than other methods (like those based on say, RSEM) in that it omits the conventional alignment step, and instead calculates what it calls compatibility classes for each read, which are transcripts that the read could align with, if a proper alignment had taken place. | It is considerably faster than other methods (like those based on say, RSEM) in that it omits the conventional alignment step, and instead calculates what it calls compatibility classes for each read, which are transcripts that the read could align with, if a proper alignment had taken place. | ||
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| + | First off, we need an assembly of some sort: a reference transcriptome or genome, which may have been de-novo assembled. AS is often the case, this needs to be indexed first. Kallisto has its own tool for that: | ||
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Revision as of 23:09, 22 May 2016
Contents
Inroducion
It's the new (2015) way of evaluating gene expression abundance from NGS short reads.
It is considerably faster than other methods (like those based on say, RSEM) in that it omits the conventional alignment step, and instead calculates what it calls compatibility classes for each read, which are transcripts that the read could align with, if a proper alignment had taken place.
Steps in Brief
First off, we need an assembly of some sort: a reference transcriptome or genome, which may have been de-novo assembled. AS is often the case, this needs to be indexed first. Kallisto has its own tool for that:
kallisto index -i transcripts.idx transcripts.fasta.gz
Links
- Kallisto's own getting started page at starting
- benchtobioinformatics
- Andrew MacKenzie
Analysis
Also part of Lior Pachter's lab is the Sleuth software and this is recommended for analysis of kallisto output
