ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2019, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (3): 474-484.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2019.03.002

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Transcriptomics Analysis and Functional Genes Mining

LI Xin1, LI Xiaojun1, CHEN Xiaoli1, ZHAO Yiqiang2*, WANG Dong1*   

  1. 1. Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China;
    2. College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2018-04-11 Online:2019-03-23 Published:2019-03-23

Abstract:

With the continuous development and application of high-throughput sequencing technology, transcriptome analysis method is developed for mining genes with important function. However, a lot work needs to be done for efficient and accurate transcriptome analysis based on massive sequencing data. Here, we reviewed methods for reads quality control, reads mapping, genome annotation, transcripts assembling, expression quantification, differential expression analysis for RNA-seq data. We summarized the performance and scope of application of the common softwares, algorithms and databases used. We also reviewed analysis methods such as protein regulatory interaction networks as well as weighted gene co-expression networks. Transcriptome analysis has been evolved from identifying differentially expressed gene within-species to utilizing related species as reference to mine the functional genes in target species. By combining with various methods, such as the homologous gene prediction, select signal detection, extreme data analysis, GO annotation and KEGG enrichment and bulked segregant RNA-Seq (BSR-Seq) methods, the results from RNA-seq analysis are more scientific and reliable. With the development of sequencing technology and data analysis methods as well as continuous improvement of database resources, the underline gene regulation and the law of life implied in the sequencing data will be uncovered accurately and deeply in future.

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