LYČKA, Martin, Vratislav PEŠKA, Martin DEMKO, Ioannis SPYROGLOU, Agata Magdalena KILAR, Jiří FAJKUS and Miloslava FOJTOVÁ. WALTER: an easy way to online evaluate telomere lengths from terminal restriction fragment analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. London: BioMed Central, 2021, vol. 22, No 1, p. "145", 14 pp. ISSN 1471-2105. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04064-0.
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Original name WALTER: an easy way to online evaluate telomere lengths from terminal restriction fragment analysis
Authors LYČKA, Martin (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vratislav PEŠKA (203 Czech Republic), Martin DEMKO (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Ioannis SPYROGLOU (300 Greece, belonging to the institution), Agata Magdalena KILAR (616 Poland, belonging to the institution), Jiří FAJKUS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Miloslava FOJTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition BMC Bioinformatics, London, BioMed Central, 2021, 1471-2105.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10609 Biochemical research methods
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.307
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14740/21:00119108
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04064-0
UT WoS 000634776700003
Keywords in English Telomere length; Terminal restriction fragments; Online toolset
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Pavla Foltynová, Ph.D., učo 106624. Changed: 9/6/2022 11:20.
Abstract
BackgroundTelomeres, nucleoprotein structures comprising short tandem repeats and delimiting the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes, play an important role in the maintenance of genome stability. Therefore, the determination of the length of telomeres is of high importance for many studies. Over the last years, new methods for the analysis of the length of telomeres have been developed, including those based on PCR or analysis of NGS data. Despite that, terminal restriction fragment (TRF) method remains the gold standard to this day. However, this method lacks universally accepted and precise tool capable to analyse and statistically evaluate TRF results.ResultsTo standardize the processing of TRF results, we have developed WALTER, an online toolset allowing rapid, reproducible, and user-friendly analysis including statistical evaluation of the data. Given its web-based nature, it provides an easily accessible way to analyse TRF data without any need to install additional software.ConclusionsWALTER represents a major upgrade from currently available tools for the image processing of TRF scans. This toolset enables a rapid, highly reproducible, and user-friendly evaluation of almost any TRF scan including in-house statistical evaluation of the data. WALTER platform together with user manual describing the evaluation of TRF scans in detail and presenting tips and troubleshooting, as well as test data to demo the software are available at https://www.ceitec.eu/chromatin-molecular-complexes-jiri-fajkus/rg51/tab?tabId=125#WALTER and the source code at https://github.com/mlyc93/WALTER.
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GA18-07027S, research and development projectName: Zapojení telomerázy do buněčného interaktomu
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
GX20-01331X, research and development projectName: Biogeneze a evoluce telomerázy u rostlin
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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