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Unique identifier	OMICS_12009
Name	FusionMetaCaller
Software type	Toolkit/Suite
Interface	Command line interface
Restrictions to use	None
Operating system	Unix/Linux, Mac OS, Windows
Programming languages	R
License	GNU General Public License version 2.0
Computer skills	Advanced
Version	1.0
Stability	Stable
Maintained	Yes

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Documentation

Documentation: http://tsenglab.biostat.pitt.edu/software/FusionMetaCaller/FusionMetaCaller-manual.pdf

Maintainer

Silvia Liu <>

Publication for FusionMetaCaller

Comprehensive evaluation of fusion transcript detection algorithms and a meta-caller to combine top performing methods in paired-end RNA-seq data.

2016 Nucleic Acids Res

PMCID: 4797269

PMID: 26582927

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1234

FusionMetaCaller in publication

Discovering and understanding oncogenic gene fusions through data intensive computational approaches

PMCID: 4889949

PMID: 27105842

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw282

[…] packages, such as breakdancer () and crest (), can call gene fusions in addition to other structural rearrangements. in the last 2 years, several additional fusion mapping tools have been released—fusionmetacaller (), jaffa (), idp-fusion (), trup (), fusioncatcher and prada (). a number of supporting tools, such as the bioconductor package chimera (), offer utilities for organizing, analyzing […]

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FusionMetaCaller institution(s)

Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Molecular Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Magee-Women's Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

FusionMetaCaller funding source(s)

NIH [R21MH094862 and RO1CA190766]; University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) [MOST103-2221-E-010-015 and MOST 104-2221-E-010-012]; National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (a grant from Ministry of Education, Aim for the Top University Plan)

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