PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Shruti Kane AU - Himanshu Garg AU - Neeraja M. Krishnan AU - Aditya Singh AU - Binay Panda TI - <em>RNAtor</em>: an Android-based application for biologists to plan RNA sequencing experiments AID - 10.1101/095315 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 095315 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/19/095315.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/19/095315.full AB - RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful technology for identification of novel transcripts (coding, non-coding and splice variants), understanding of transcript structures and estimation of gene and/or allelic expression. There are specific challenges that biologists face in determining the number of replicates to use, total number of sequencing reads to generate for detecting marginally differentially expressed transcripts and the number of lanes in a sequencing flow cell to use for the production of right amount of information. Although past studies attempted answering some of these questions, there is a lack of accessible and biologist-friendly mobile applications to answer these questions. Keeping this in mind, we have developed RNAtor, a mobile application for Android platforms, to aid biologists in correctly designing their RNA-seq experiments. The recommendations from RNAtor are based on simulations and real data.Availability and Implementation The Android version of RNAtor is available on Google Play Store and the code from GitHub (https://github.com/binaypanda/RNAtor).