Process / pipelineTranscriptomics

De Novo Transcriptome Assembly

De novo transcriptome assembly reconstructs full-length messenger RNA sequences directly from sequencing reads without requiring a reference genome. Pioneered by Regev, Haas, and colleagues, this pipeline enables transcript discovery in non-model organisms and detection of novel isoforms, fusion genes, and splice variants.

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  1. Grabherr, M. G., Haas, B. J., Yassour, M., Levin, J. Z., Thompson, D. A., Amit, I., ... & Regev, A. (2011). Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome. Nature Biotechnology, 29(7), 644-652. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1883
  2. Haas, B. J., Papanicolaou, A., Yassour, M., Grabherr, M., Blood, P. D., Bowden, J., ... & Regev, A. (2013). De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis. Nature Protocols, 8(8), 1494-1512. DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.084
  3. Pertea, M., Pertea, G. M., Antonescu, C. M., Chang, T. C., Mendell, J. T., & Salzberg, S. L. (2015). StringTie enables improved assembly of novel transcripts from RNA-seq data. Nature Biotechnology, 33(3), 290-295. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3122

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ScholarGateDe Novo Transcriptome Assembly (De Novo RNA-Seq Transcriptome Assembly). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/bioinformatics/de-novo-transcriptome-assembly