Sircah: a tool for the detection and visualization of alternative transcripts.

Bioinformatics

Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.

Published: September 2008

Unlabelled: Sircah is a flexible tool for the detection, analysis and visualization of alternative transcripts. It takes as input gene models or spliced alignments and creates a database of alternative transcription events: alternative transcription initiation and polyadenylation, alternative 3' and 5' splice-site usage, skipped exons and retained introns. The results can be visualized in a variety of ways, allowing the creation of publication quality images.

Availability: The Sircah is available for download under a creative commons license along with additional documentation and a tutorial from http://www.bork.embl.de/Sircah.

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