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Bridge over troubled transcripts

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Scallop2, a tool that enables accurate reference-guided transcriptome assembly, capitalizes on recent developments in short-read sequencing protocols for single-cell RNA sequencing by leveraging multi-end and paired-end information.

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Fig. 1: Scallop2 uses UMIs to infer additional information from splice graphs.

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  1. Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Guillermo E. Parada

  2. Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Martin Hemberg

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