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  • DNAmethylome
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    • Oct 2012
    • 13

    Can Cufflinks report chimeric transcripts/fusions?

    I understand that Cufflinks can report FPKM on novel transcripts (different isoforms) if using proper parameters, but I wonder whether cufflinks is able to report FPKM on chimeric transcripts/gene fusions between different genes? for example, if a fusion happens between exon1 of gene1 and exon5-6 of gene2, would cufflinks be able to report an isoform (the fusion) in some format as below (in the transcripts.gtf):

    chr_gene1 gene1_exon1_start gene1_exon1_end gene1_exon1_fpkm
    chr_gene2 gene2_exon5_start gene2_exon5_end gene2_exon5_fpkm
    chr_gene2 gene2_exon6_start gene2_exon6_end gene2_exon6_fpkm

    Based on a test case I ran, I don't see cufflinks reporting the fusion transcripts..., but I wonder whether it's because I was not using the right parameters or cufflinks never does that.. Please advise.

    Thanks!
  • DNAmethylome
    Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 13

    #2
    Can someone help me on this question?

    Thank you very much!

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    • l_zembek
      Junior Member
      • Mar 2013
      • 9

      #3
      You may be more interested in TopHat fusion for this purpose:

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