Is it possible to detect lncRNA in a de novo assembled genome?
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Reza ▴ 10

Hello everybody,

I have RNAseq data from species that the genome reference is not available and I'd like detect lncRNA. Do you think that this is possible?

Thanks,

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Yes, if those transcripts are long enough and do not have any coding potential.

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Thank you for your answer.

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Could you elaborate on the preferred strategy and tools to do that.

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There are some tools that can distinguish between lncRNAs and mRNAs even if the transcript sequence is incomplete (as you would expect in a de novo assembly). You can check Figure 5 here.

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Your title says that you have a de novo assembled genome, but your question is about a species with (reference) genome, so what is it?

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Hi Wouter,

I assembled the raw reads into transcripts (contigs) and used it as reference genome.

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No problem, just assemble the transcripts and then assess their coding potentials. Would be good to use several tools for coding potential and then see if their results overlap.

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