SLFinder

SLFinder is a four step pipeline of bioinformatic analyses meant to identify putative Spliced Leader (pSL) sequences from Transcriptome data assembled de novo, without making use of known SL sequences and requiring minimal manual manipulaion of the data by the user.

SLFinder Workflow
The SLFinder workflow. Please refer to Calvelo et al. (2020) for a comprehensive description of the software.

Installation and Usage

In order to install and use SLFinder, follow the instructions given in the GitHub page of the software.

Citation

If you use SLFinder in your work, please cite the following work:

Calvelo, J., Juan, H., Musto, H. et al. SLFinder, a pipeline for the novel identification of splice-leader sequences: a good enough solution for a complex problem. BMC Bioinformatics 21, 293 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03610-6