CPSS 2.0: a computational platform update for the analysis of small RNA sequencing data

Bioinformatics. 2017 Oct 15;33(20):3289-3291. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx066.

Abstract

Summary: Next-generation sequencing has been widely applied to understand the complexity of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the last decades. Here, we present CPSS 2.0, an updated version of CPSS 1.0 for small RNA sequencing data analysis, with the following improvements: (i) a substantial increase of supported species from 10 to 48; (ii) improved strategies applied to detect ncRNAs; (iii) more ncRNAs can be detected and profiled, such as lncRNA and circRNA; (iv) identification of differentially expressed ncRNAs among multiple samples; (v) enhanced visualization interface containing graphs and charts in detailed analysis results. The new version of CPSS is an efficient bioinformatics tool for users in non-coding RNA research.

Availability and implementation: CPSS 2.0 is implemented in PHP + Perl + R and can be freely accessed at http://114.214.166.79/cpss2.0/.

Contact: zyuanwei@ustc.edu.cn or qshi@ustc.edu.cn.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Eukaryota / genetics
  • Eukaryota / metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Humans
  • RNA, Untranslated / genetics*
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA / methods*
  • Software*

Substances

  • RNA, Untranslated