Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 17, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(17):1959-1960; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn361
Sircah: a tool for the detection and visualization of alternative transcripts
1Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg and 2Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, D-13092 Berlin, Germany
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Summary: 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.
Contact: bork@embl.de
Received on February 22, 2008; revised on May 30, 2008; accepted on July 14, 2008