TSS-Captur: a user-friendly pipeline for characterizing unclassified RNA transcripts.

RNA-seq and its 5'-enrichment methods for prokaryotes have enabled the precise identification of transcription start sites (TSSs), improving gene expression analysis. Computational methods are applied to these data to identify TSSs and classify them based on proximal annotated genes. While some TSSs cannot be classified at all (orphan TSSs), other TSSs are found on the reverse strand of known genes (antisense TSSs) but are not associated with the direct transcription of any known gene.

Evidente-a visual analytics tool for data enrichment in SNP-based phylogenetic trees.

Motivation: A common practice in the analysis of pathogens and their strains is using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to reconstruct their evolutionary history. However, genome-wide SNP-based phylogenetic trees are rarely analyzed without any further information. Including the underlying SNP data together with further metadata on the respective samples in the exploration process can facilitate linking the genomic and phenotypic properties of the samples.