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Bellerophontes performs a selection of putative junctions on the basis of a match to an accurate gene fusion model.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We report the fusion genes discovered by the proposed framework on experimentally validated biological samples of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and on public NCBI datasets, for which Bellerophontes is able to detect the exact junction sequence. With respect to state-of-art approaches, Bellerophontes detects the same experimentally validated fusions, however, it is more selective on the total number of detected fusions and provides a more accurate set of spanning reads supporting the junctions. We finally report the fusions involving non-annotated transcripts found in CML samples.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: Bellerophontes JAVA\/Perl\/Bash software implementation is free and available at http:\/\/eda.polito.it\/bellerophontes\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0francesco.abate@polito.it<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bts334","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,19]],"date-time":"2012-06-19T00:19:39Z","timestamp":1340065179000},"page":"2114-2121","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Bellerophontes: an RNA-Seq data analysis framework for chimeric transcripts discovery based on accurate fusion model"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Francesco","family":"Abate","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino 10129, Italy 2Department of Biotechnology, Universit\u00e0 di Verona, 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