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Traditional informatics methods, primarily at the gene level, overlook the complexity of alternative transcript variants and protein isoforms produced by most genes, changes in which are linked to disease prognosis and drug resistance.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We developed TransTEx (Transcript-level Tissue Expression), a novel tissue-specificity scoring method, for grouping transcripts into four expression groups. TransTEx applies sequential cut-offs to tissue-wise transcript probability estimates, subsampling-based P-values and fold-change estimates. Application of TransTEx on GTEx mRNA-seq data divided 199\u00a0166 human transcripts into different groups as 17\u00a0999 tissue-specific (TSp), 7436 tissue-enhanced, 36\u00a0783 widely expressed (Wide), 79\u00a0191 lowly expressed (Low), and 57\u00a0757 no expression (Null) transcripts. Testis has the most (13\u00a0466) TSp isoforms followed by liver (890), brain (701), pituitary (435), and muscle (420). We found that the tissue specificity of alternative transcripts of a gene is predominantly influenced by alternate promoter usage. By overlapping brain-specific transcripts with the cell-type gene-markers in scBrainMap database, we found that 63% of the brain-specific transcripts were enriched in nonneuronal cell types, predominantly astrocytes followed by endothelial cells and oligodendrocytes. In addition, we found 61 brain cell-type marker genes encoding a total of 176 alternative transcripts as brain-specific and 22 alternative transcripts as testis-specific, highlighting the complex TSp and cell-type specific gene regulation and expression at isoform-level. TransTEx can be adopted to the analysis of bulk RNA-seq or scRNA-seq datasets to find tissue- and\/or cell-type specific isoform-level gene markers.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>TransTEx database: https:\/\/bmi.cewit.stonybrook.edu\/transtexdb\/ and the R package is available via GitHub: https:\/\/github.com\/pallavisurana1\/TransTEx.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btae475","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,9]],"date-time":"2024-08-09T20:59:01Z","timestamp":1723237141000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["TransTEx: novel tissue-specificity scoring method for grouping human transcriptome into different expression 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