Mapping & quantification
Analyzing RNA-seq data with Salmon/STAR/RSEM
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Analyzing RNA-seq data with Salmon/STAR/RSEM
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Methods
Tools
Output Quantification
Total Time (hr)
Alignment-free
Transcript-level
(gene-level aggregation using tximport
)
3.4
Alignment-free
Transcript-level
(gene-level aggregation using tximport
)
16.0
Alignment-free
Transcript-level
(gene-level aggregation using tximport
)
6.1
Alignment-based
Gene-level
(with --quantMode GeneCounts
option)
14.8
Alignment-based
Transcript-level
(gene-level aggregation using tximport
)
16.3
STAR: 14.8
Salmon: 1.5
Alignment-based
Gene-level and Transcript-level
57.2
STAR: 14.8
RSEM: 42.3
Tools
dUTP, NSR, NNSR
Ligation, Standard SOLiD
Standard Illumina
TopHat/Cufflinks
fr-firststrand
fr-secondstrand
fr-unstranded
HISAT2
--rna-strandness RF (Paired)
--rna-strandness R (Single)
--rna-strandness FR (Paired)
--rna-strandness F (Single)
Salmon
-l ISR (Paired)
-l SR (Single)
-l ISF (Paired)
-l SF (Single)
-l IU (Paired)
-l U (Single)
Kallisto
--rf-stranded
--fr-stranded
RSEM
--strandedness reverse
--strandedness forward
--strandedness none
FeatureCounts
-s 2
-s 1
-s 0
HTSeq
--stranded reverse
--stranded yes
--stranded no