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Differential Splicing

Jason Walker edited this page Nov 7, 2016 · 27 revisions

RNA-seq Flowchart - Module 5

#4-iv. Differential Splicing

Use Cuffdiff to compare the UHR and HBR conditions.

Refer to the Cufflinks manual for a more detailed explanation: http://cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/cufflinks/cuffdiff/index.html

Cuffdiff basic usage:

cuffdiff [options] <transcripts.gtf> <sample1_hits.sam> <sample2_hits.sam> [... sampleN_hits.sam]
  • Supply replicate SAMs as comma separated lists for each condition: sample1_rep1.sam,sample1_rep2.sam,...sample1_repM.sam
  • '-p 8' tells cuffdiff to use eight CPUs
  • '-L' tells cuffdiff the labels to use for samples

Perform UHR vs. HBR comparison, for known/novel (reference guided mode) transcripts:

cd $RNA_HOME/
mkdir -p de/cufflinks/ref_guided/
cd $RNA_ALIGN_DIR

cuffdiff -p 8 -L UHR,HBR -o $RNA_HOME/de/cufflinks/ref_guided/ --no-update-check $RNA_HOME/expression/cufflinks/ref_guided/merged/merged.gtf UHR_Rep1.bam,UHR_Rep2.bam,UHR_Rep3.bam HBR_Rep1.bam,HBR_Rep2.bam,HBR_Rep3.bam

Perform UHR vs. HBR comparison, for known/novel (de novo mode) transcripts:

cd $RNA_HOME/
mkdir -p de/cufflinks/de_novo/
cd $RNA_ALIGN_DIR

cuffdiff -p 8 -L UHR,HBR -o $RNA_HOME/de/cufflinks/de_novo/ --no-update-check $RNA_HOME/expression/cufflinks/de_novo/merged/merged.gtf UHR_Rep1.bam,UHR_Rep2.bam,UHR_Rep3.bam HBR_Rep1.bam,HBR_Rep2.bam,HBR_Rep3.bam

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