TopHat is a fast splice junction mapper for RNA-Seq reads. It aligns RNA-Seq reads to mammalian-sized genomes using the ultra high-throughput short read aligner Bowtie, and then analyzes the mapping results to identify splice junctions between exons.
CyVerse UK provides an application to use TopHat with single reads, and one to be used for paired end reads.
See the official website for more details.
Trapnell C, Pachter L, Salzberg SL. TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq. Bioinformatics doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120
Langmead B, Trapnell C, Pop M, Salzberg SL. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biology 10:R25.
Kim D and Salzberg SL. TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcripts. Genome Biology 2011, 12:R72
Kim D, Pertea G, Trapnell C, Pimentel H, Kelley R, Salzberg SL. TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions. . Genome Biology 2013, 14:R36
