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Although all of these computational methods show good sensitivity, much work remains to reduce the huge number of false-positive calls that arises from this analysis.<\/jats:p>\n Results: We proposed a novel computational framework, named chimEric tranScript detection algorithm (EricScript), for the identification of gene fusion products in paired-end RNA-seq data. Our simulation study on synthetic data demonstrates that EricScript enables to achieve higher sensitivity and specificity than existing methods with noticeably lower running times. We also applied our method to publicly available RNA-seq tumour datasets, and we showed its capability in rediscovering known gene fusions.<\/jats:p>\n Availability: The EricScript package is freely available under GPL v3 license at http:\/\/ericscript.sourceforge.net.<\/jats:p>\n Contact: \u00a0matteo.benelli@gmail.com<\/jats:p>\n Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bts617","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,10,24]],"date-time":"2012-10-24T04:55:41Z","timestamp":1351054541000},"page":"3232-3239","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":175,"title":["Discovering chimeric transcripts in paired-end RNA-seq data by using EricScript"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Matteo","family":"Benelli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Diagnostic Genetic Unit, Laboratory Department, Careggi University Hospital, 50134 Florence, 2Center for the 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