Hello Adnan,

Thanks for offering the data. Assuming that it comes with no 
restrictions, we are happy to host it. I will be in touch with you 
off-list for the logistics.

Regards,

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Ann Zweig
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu


On 1/4/11 7:31 PM, Derti, Adnan wrote:
> Hello.
>
> My colleagues and I have developed a high-throughput sequencing method
> that identifies polyadenylation sites in a quantitative and
> strand-specific manner. We're about to submit a manuscript that
> describes the method as well as a sizeable data set that we've generated
> on an Illumina sequencer. We're making the data public now (i.e.,
> depositing reads and alignments in GEO and SRA), and we'd like to know
> if UCSC would be interested in making our alignment tracks public.
>
> The data consists of a mixture of 22 tissues in human, mouse, rat, dog
> and rhesus; they're mostly normal tissues, but the human samples include
> brain and UHR MAQC samples, as well as a breast tumor and matched
> normal. In each tissue, we sequenced several tens of millions of 76-bp
> reads (details will follow pending interest).
>
> An example is attached that shows wiggle tracks for a human gene; for
> simplicity, only reads for the sense strand are shown. The first figure
> is on a linear scale and shows that a single polyadenylation site
> dominates across all tissues. The second figure is a close-up of the 3'
> UTR on a log scale; it shows that multiple polyadenylation variants are
> present in every tissue, and that the UCSC and Refseq transcripts
> correspond to minor polyadenylation sites.
>
> We developed a computational method to filter false positives arising
> from internal poly-A tracts. We would suggest a super-track for each
> tissue that shows four tracks, namely reads from the forward and reverse
> strands in separate colors, and all reads vs. filtered reads in distinct
> shades.
>
>   <<human.agpat6.polyA.png>>   <<human.agpat6.polyA.zoom.log.png>>
>
> Thanks, and please let me know if you'd like me to provide additional
> information.
>
> Adnan Derti
> Senior Research Scientist
> Merck Research Laboratories
> Boston, MA
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