long-read-splicing

Analyzes alternative splicing from PacBio Iso-Seq (HiFi, Kinnex/MAS-Iso-seq) and Oxford Nanopore (direct cDNA, direct RNA, R10.4.1+) long-read RNA-seq with full-isoform resolution. Tools include FLAIR (correct/collapse/quantify/diffSplice for PacBio + ONT), IsoQuant (de-novo or annotation-guided isoform discovery 2024 SOTA), Bambu (annotation-aware Bayesian discovery + quantification with Novel Discovery Rate), SQANTI3 (isoform classification: FSM/ISM/NIC/NNC + artifact flags), rMATS-long (event calling on long-read isoforms), and minimap2 (-ax splice:hq for HiFi; -ax splice -k14 for ONT cDNA; add -uf only for direct RNA or stranded cDNA preps). Solves microexon detection, recursive splicing, complex multi-exon isoforms, and DTU without transcript-quantification uncertainty. Use when short-read AS limitations (anchor length, complex isoforms, microexons, recursive splicing, transcript ambiguity) demand full-isoform resolution.