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Among the most productive applications of NGS technologies is the sequencing of cellular RNA, known as RNA-Seq. Although RNA-Seq provides similar or superior dynamic range than microarrays at similar or lower cost, the lack of standard and user-friendly pipelines is a bottleneck preventing RNA-Seq from becoming the standard for transcriptome analysis.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In this work we present a pipeline for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data, that we have named Grape (Grape RNA-Seq Analysis Pipeline Environment). Grape supports raw sequencing reads produced by a variety of technologies, either in FASTA or FASTQ format, or as prealigned reads in SAM\/BAM format. A minimal Grape configuration consists of the file location of the raw sequencing reads, the genome of the species and the corresponding gene and transcript annotation.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Grape first runs a set of quality control steps, and then aligns the reads to the genome, a step that is omitted for prealigned read formats. Grape next estimates gene and transcript expression levels, calculates exon inclusion levels and identifies novel transcripts.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Grape can be run on a single computer or in parallel on a computer cluster. It is distributed with specific mapping and quantification tools, but given its modular design, any tool supporting popular data interchange formats can be integrated.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: Grape can be obtained from the Bioinformatics and Genomics website at: http:\/\/big.crg.cat\/services\/grape.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0david.gonzalez@crg.eu or roderic.guigo@crg.eu<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt016","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,18]],"date-time":"2013-01-18T01:18:02Z","timestamp":1358471882000},"page":"614-621","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Grape RNA-Seq analysis pipeline environment"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"David G.","family":"Knowles","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"given":"Maik","family":"R\u00f6der","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"given":"Angelika","family":"Merkel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"given":"Roderic","family":"Guig\u00f3","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051607325253400_btt016-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1416","DOI":"10.1038\/ng.264","article-title":"Expression of 24,426 human alternative splicing events and predicted cis regulation in 48 tissues and cell lines","volume":"40","author":"Castle","year":"2008","journal-title":"Nat. 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