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+# IntroVerse
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+IntroVerse is a database of introns and alternative splicing events across human tissues.
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+IntroVerse is the first version of an effort to provide quality-controlled information of the splicing activity of 208,985 annotated introns from the reference transcriptome Ensembl v105, spanning 31,413 different genes across 18,826 RNA-seq samples and 54 human control tissues provided by the GTEx v8 project and processed by recount3. 
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+IntroVerse has two unique features: 
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+* it provides a complete and unfiltered catalogue of introns that have been carefully processed and quality-controlled
+* each novel intron has been assigned to a specific annotated intron, which provides a hierarchical structure allowing the user to start by browsing a gene or genomic position of interest and to end with an exploration of the complete catalogue of alternative events.
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+In addition, IntroVerse allows users to browse, visualise, download and compare key genomic parameters either across introns of a particular gene and sample of interest or across multiple genes, samples and human tissues.
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+IntroVerse also provides the visualisation of alternative splicing events by:
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+* displaying the section of the gene’s MANE transcript predicted to be spliced out from the isoform after the excision of the novel event
+* the mis-splicing frequency of each one of the introns of the MANE transcript.
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+## Software used:
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+* [ggtranscript](https://github.com/dzhang32/ggtranscript)
+* [recount3](https://rna.recount.bio/)
+* [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/index.html)
+* [Shiny](https://shiny.rstudio.com/)
+* [Docker](https://shiny.rstudio.com/)