Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans
Open Access
- 22 December 2010
- journal article
- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Genome Research
- Vol. 21 (2), 342-348
- https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.114645.110
Abstract
Alternative splicing (AS) plays a crucial role in the diversification of gene function and regulation. Consequently, the systematic identification and characterization of temporally regulated splice variants is of critical importance to understanding animal development. We have used high-throughput RNA sequencing and microarray profiling to analyze AS in C. elegans across various stages of development. This analysis identified thousands of novel splicing events, including hundreds of developmentally regulated AS events. To make these data easily accessible and informative, we constructed the C. elegans Splice Browser, a web resource in which researchers can mine AS events of interest and retrieve information about their relative levels and regulation across development. The data presented in this study, along with the Splice Browser, provide the most comprehensive set of annotated splice variants in C. elegans to date, and are therefore expected to facilitate focused, high resolution in vivo functional assays of AS function.Keywords
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