PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Harold Pimentel
AU  - Pascal Sturmfels
AU  - Nicolas Bray
AU  - Páll Melsted
AU  - Lior Pachter
TI  - The Lair: A resource for exploratory analysis of published RNA-Seq data
AID  - 10.1101/056200
DP  - 2016 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 056200
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/31/056200.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/31/056200.full
AB  - Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is typically not easily usable in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data in the Short Read Archive, that together have allowed us to build an easily extendable resource for analysis of data underlying published papers. Our system makes the exploration of data easily accessible and usable without technical expertise. Our database and associated tools can be accessed at The Lair: http://pachterlab.github.io/lair