The alternative splicing calculation was performed using the definition of splicing index as average log2 transformed relations between expression levels of individual probe-sets (representing individual exons) and transcript clusters (evaluation of gene expression level) [21].
Although the intronic contigs were not scaffolded in these relocations, the predicted connections could recover the complete transcripts and thus were considered as 'correct' relocations (see the transcript coverage evaluation below).
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Subsequently, we analyzed the aligned reads for transcript assembly, abundance evaluation and normalization.
For each transcript cluster, the evaluation program establishes a one-to-one (and one-to-many in the case of split/joined transcripts) mapping between predicted and annotated transcripts.
Currently we have not explored transcriptome assembly from an organism in which alternative splicing is prevalent, neither have we had a good reference set that contains a comprehensive list of alternatively spliced transcript variants for evaluation of such effects.
Bowtie v. 0.12.7 [ 53] was used to map reads to the FD92 genome as well as to the assembled transcripts for the evaluation of gene expression levels.
This observed trend was verified using RT-PCR evaluation transcripts identified in our previous studies as characteristic of early and late responses to E2 (Hewitt et al. 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009).
Our findings and the availability of the microarray data set will be useful in the development of a panel of biomarker uterine transcripts for future evaluation of modes of action and mechanisms of other potentially estrogenic chemicals.
For robust evaluation of transcript expression level, we eliminated 1101 transcripts that were targeted by less than three unique probes, and we used 508,908 unique probes of 43,934 transcripts in this study (Additional file 26: Table S15).
