Abstract
Experiments that profile nascent RNA are growing in popularity; however, there is no standard analysis pipeline to uniformly process the data and assess quality. Here, we introduce PEPPRO, a comprehensive, scalable workflow for GRO-seq, PRO-seq, and ChRO-seq data. PEPPRO produces uniform processed output files for downstream analysis, including alignment files, signal tracks, and count matrices. Furthermore, PEPPRO simplifies downstream analysis by using a standard project definition format which can be read using metadata APIs in R and Python. For quality control, PEPPRO provides several novel statistics and plots, including assessments of adapter abundance, RNA integrity, library complexity, nascent RNA purity, and run-on efficiency. PEPPRO is restartable and fault-tolerant, records copious logs, and provides a web-based project report for navigating results. It can be run on local hardware or using any cluster resource manager, using either native software or our provided modular Linux container environment. PEPPRO is thus a robust and portable first step for genomic nascent RNA analysis.
Availability BSD2-licensed code and documentation: https://peppro.databio.org.