StringTie

Overview

StringTie is a fast and highly efficient assembler of RNA-Seq alignments into potential transcripts. It uses a novel network flow algorithm as well as an optional de novo assembly step to assemble and quantitate full-length transcripts representing multiple splice variants for each gene locus. Its input can include not only alignments of short reads that can also be used by other transcript assemblers, but also alignments of longer sequences that have been assembled from those reads. In order to identify differentially expressed genes between experiments, StringTie's output can be processed by specialized software like Ballgown, Cuffdiff or other programs (DESeq2, edgeR, etc.).

Using

Use the module name stringtie to discover versions available and to load the application.

If you’re Evaluating transcript assemblies, then “A simple way of getting more information about the transcripts assembled by StringTie (summary of gene and transcript counts, novel vs. known etc.), or even performing basic tracking of assembled isoforms across multiple RNA-Seq experiments, is to use the gffcompare program.”

• This is installed separately and can be used by using the gffcompare module.