Detection of gene fusions using targeted next-generation sequencing: a comparative evaluation

C Heydt, CB Wölwer, O Velazquez Camacho… - BMC medical …, 2021 - Springer
Background Gene fusions represent promising targets for cancer therapy in lung cancer.
Reliable detection of multiple gene fusions is therefore essential. Methods Five …

Next generation sequencing for gene fusion analysis in lung cancer: a literature review

R Bruno, G Fontanini - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gene fusions have a pivotal role in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) precision medicine.
Several techniques can be used, from fluorescence in situ hybridization and …

High‐throughput diagnostic profiling of clinically actionable gene fusions in lung cancer

N Pfarr, A Stenzinger, R Penzel, A Warth… - Genes …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular profiling of non‐small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) has a strong impact on clinical
decision making and current oncological therapies. Besides detection of activating …

Application of next generation sequencing to human gene fusion detection: computational tools, features and perspectives

Q Wang, J Xia, P Jia, W Pao, Z Zhao - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Gene fusions are important genomic events in human cancer because their fusion gene
products can drive the development of cancer and thus are potential prognostic tools or …

An integrative approach to reveal driver gene fusions from paired-end sequencing data in cancer

XS Wang, JR Prensner, G Chen, Q Cao, B Han… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Cancer genomes contain many aberrant gene fusions—a few that drive disease and many
more that are nonspecific passengers. We developed an algorithm (the concept signature …

JAFFAL: detecting fusion genes with long-read transcriptome sequencing

NM Davidson, Y Chen, T Sadras, GL Ryland… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
In cancer, fusions are important diagnostic markers and targets for therapy. Long-read
transcriptome sequencing allows the discovery of fusions with their full-length isoform …

InFusion: advancing discovery of fusion genes and chimeric transcripts from deep RNA-sequencing data

K Okonechnikov, A Imai-Matsushima, L Paul, A Seitz… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Analysis of fusion transcripts has become increasingly important due to their link with cancer
development. Since high-throughput sequencing approaches survey fusion events …

Sensitive gene fusion detection using ambiguously mapping RNA-Seq read pairs

M Kinsella, O Harismendy, M Nakano, KA Frazer… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Paired-end whole transcriptome sequencing provides evidence for fusion
transcripts. However, due to the repetitiveness of the transcriptome, many reads have …

FusionMap: detecting fusion genes from next-generation sequencing data at base-pair resolution

H Ge, K Liu, T Juan, F Fang, M Newman… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Next generation sequencing technology generates high-throughput data, which
allows us to detect fusion genes at both transcript and genomic levels. To detect fusion …

FusionCatcher–a tool for finding somatic fusion genes in paired-end RNA-sequencing data

D Nicorici, M Şatalan, H Edgren, S Kangaspeska… - biorxiv, 2014 - biorxiv.org
FusionCatcher is a software tool for finding somatic fusion genes in paired-end RNA-
sequencing data from human or other vertebrates. FusionCatcher achieves competitive …