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 __Citation__: Chen Yang, Justin Chu, René L Warren, Inanç Birol; NanoSim: nanopore sequence read simulator based on statistical characterization. Gigascience 2017 gix010. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/gix010
 
+## Transcriptome simulation
+For transcriptome simulaton (directRNA / cDNA reads), please use [Trans-NanoSim](https://github.com/bcgsc/Trans-NanoSim) for now. We are working on merging Trans-NanoSim pipeline into NanoSim repository and it will be available shortly.
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 ## Dependencies
 minimap2 (Tested with version 2.10)  
 LAST (Tested with version 581 and 916)  
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 3. `simulated_error_profile`  
   Contains all the information of errors introduced into each reads, including error type, position, original bases and current bases.  
 
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 ## Acknowledgements
 Sincere thanks to my labmates and all contributors and users to this tool.