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Most transcript reconstruction methods infer full-length transcripts from high-throughput sequencing data. However, this is a challenging task due to incomplete annotations and the heterogeneous expression of transcripts across cell-types, tissues, and experimental conditions. Several recent methods circumvent these difficulties by considering local splicing events, but these methods lose transcript-level splicing information and may conflate similar, but distinct transcripts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this work, we formalize a new transcript reconstruction problem that interpolates between the full-length and local splicing perspectives by considering sequences of exon\u2013exon junctions (SEEJs) that co-occur in transcripts. We then present a hierarchical Bayesian admixture model and posterior inference algorithms for computing SEEJs (BSEEJ), and a generalized linear model for characterizing differential SEEJ usage based on model parameter estimates. We show that BSEEJ achieves high F1 score for reconstruction tasks and improved accuracy and sensitivity in differential splicing when compared with six transcript and local splicing methods on simulated data. 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