title: RSeQC: quality control of RNA-seq experiments.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  RNA-seq has been extensively used for transcriptome study. Quality control (QC) is critical to ensure that RNA-seq data are of high quality and suitable for subsequent analyses. However, QC is a time-consuming and complex task, due to the massive size and versatile nature of RNA-seq data. Therefore, a convenient and comprehensive QC tool to assess RNA-seq quality is sorely needed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We developed the RSeQC package to comprehensively evaluate different aspects of RNA-seq experiments, such as sequence quality, GC bias, polymerase chain reaction bias, nucleotide composition bias, sequencing depth, strand specificity, coverage uniformity and read distribution over the genome structure. RSeQC takes both SAM and BAM files as input, which can be produced by most RNA-seq mapping tools as well as BED files, which are widely used for gene models. Most modules in RSeQC take advantage of R scripts for visualization, and they are notably efficient in dealing with large BAM/SAM files containing hundreds of millions of alignments.
  
  
  METHODS
  RSeQC is written in Python and C. Source code and a comprehensive user's manual are freely available at: http://code.google.com/p/rseqc/.
authors: Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. WL1@bcm.edu
authors: Liguo
authors: L
authors: Wang
authors: Shengqin
authors: S
authors: Wang
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D011786:Quality Control; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D012313:RNA