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Intron/Exon structure by cDNA SRA file

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to predict the exact intron/exon structure of a gene of interest. Available I have the genomic sequence and the transcriptome of the organism at NCBI's SRA. I tried it using the SRA BLAST tool provided at NCBI but I can't seem to get it right. Is there a simple way to assemble the short reads with the template of the genomic DNA? I just need to do this process with one gene.

Thanks in advance

genome alignment rna-seq

What is in SRA? Are the reads aligned?

1 answer

If you have a "reference" genome against which to align and your transcriptome reads from SRA, you can:

  1. use the fastq-dump command from the SRA SDK
  2. Align the reads with STAR or HISAT to your genome
  3. Examine the resulting output files and BAM files in the region of your gene

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