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A major benefit of Comrad is its ability to accurately identify aberrant transcripts and associated rearrangements using low coverage genome data. As a result, a Comrad analysis can be performed at a cost comparable to that of two RNA-Seq experiments, significantly lower than an analysis requiring high coverage genome data.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We have applied Comrad to the discovery of gene fusions and read-throughs in prostate cancer cell line C4-2, a derivative of the LNCaP cell line with androgen-independent characteristics. As a proof of concept, we have rediscovered in the C4-2 data 4 of the 6 fusions previously identified in LNCaP. We also identified six novel fusion transcripts and associated genomic breakpoints, and verified their existence in LNCaP, suggesting that Comrad may be more sensitive than previous methods that have been applied to fusion discovery in LNCaP. We show that many of the gene fusions discovered using Comrad would be difficult to identify using currently available techniques.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: A C++ and Perl implementation of the method demonstrated in this article is available at http:\/\/compbio.cs.sfu.ca\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0andrew.mcpherson@gmail.com<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr184","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,4,10]],"date-time":"2011-04-10T00:17:07Z","timestamp":1302394627000},"page":"1481-1488","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Comrad: detection of expressed rearrangements by integrated analysis of RNA-Seq and low coverage genome sequence data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Andrew","family":"McPherson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"},{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Chunxiao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Iman","family":"Hajirasouliha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Fereydoun","family":"Hormozdiari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Faraz","family":"Hach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Anna","family":"Lapuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Stanislav","family":"Volik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Sohrab","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"Colin","family":"Collins","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Way, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, 2BC Cancer Agency, 600th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6 and 3Vancouver Prostate Centre, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada"}]},{"given":"S. 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