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In bacteria, an equivalent approach, termed differential RNA sequencing (dRNA-seq), has recently been proposed, but the application of this approach to a large number of genomes is hindered by the paucity of computational analysis methods. With few exceptions, when the method has been used, annotation of TSSs has been largely done manually.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In this work, we present a computational method called \u2018TSSer\u2019 that enables the automatic inference of TSSs from dRNA-seq data. The method rests on a probabilistic framework for identifying both genomic positions that are preferentially enriched in the dRNA-seq data as well as preferentially captured relative to neighboring genomic regions. Evaluating our approach for TSS calling on several publicly available datasets, we find that TSSer achieves high consistency with the curated lists of annotated TSSs, but identifies many additional TSSs. Therefore, TSSer can accelerate genome-wide identification of TSSs in bacterial genomes and can aid in further characterization of bacterial transcription regulatory networks.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: TSSer is freely available under GPL license at http:\/\/www.clipz.unibas.ch\/TSSer\/index.php<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0mihaela.zavolan@unibas.ch<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt752","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,27]],"date-time":"2013-12-27T01:10:37Z","timestamp":1388106637000},"page":"971-974","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["TSSer: an automated method to identify transcription start sites in prokaryotic genomes from differential RNA sequencing data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Hadi","family":"Jorjani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mihaela","family":"Zavolan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,12,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012710455333700_btt752-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R98","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2011-12-10-r98","article-title":"The transcriptional landscape of Chlamydia pneumoniae","volume":"12","author":"Albrecht","year":"2011","journal-title":"Genome Biol."},{"key":"2023012710455333700_btt752-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"487","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr695","article-title":"MotEvo: integrated Bayesian probabilistic methods for inferring regulatory sites and motifs on multiple alignments of DNA sequences","volume":"28","author":"Arnold","year":"2012","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023012710455333700_btt752-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1043","DOI":"10.1038\/nbt.1582","article-title":"The transcription unit architecture of the Escherichia coli genome","volume":"27","author":"Cho","year":"2003","journal-title":"Nat. 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