RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 TransRate: reference free quality assessment of de-novo transcriptome assemblies JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 021626 DO 10.1101/021626 A1 Smith-Unna, Richard A1 Boursnell, Chris A1 Patro, Rob A1 Hibberd, Julian M A1 Kelly, Steven YR 2015 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/06/27/021626.abstract AB TransRate is a tool for reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies. Using only sequenced reads as the input, TransRate measures the quality of individual contigs and whole assemblies, enabling assembly optimization and comparison. TransRate can accurately evaluate assemblies of conserved and novel RNA molecules of any kind in any species. We show that it is more accurate than comparable methods and demonstrate its use on a variety of data.