HISAT swMATH ID: 28860 Software Authors: D. Kim, B. Langmead, S. L. Salzberg Description: HISAT: Hierarchical Indexing for Spliced Alignment of Transcripts. HISAT is a fast and sensitive spliced alignment program for mapping RNA-seq reads. In addition to one global FM index that represents a whole genome, HISAT uses a large set of small FM indexes that collectively cover the whole genome (each index represents a genomic region of 64,000 bp and 48,000 indexes are needed to cover the human genome). These small indexes (called local indexes) combined with several alignment strategies enable effective alignment of RNA-seq reads, in particular, reads spanning multiple exons. The memory footprint of HISAT is relatively low ( 4.3GB for the human genome). We have developed HISAT based on the Bowtie2 implementation to handle most of the operations on the FM index. Homepage: http://www.ccb.jhu.edu/software/hisat/index.shtml Source Code: https://github.com/DaehwanKimLab/hisat Related Software: Salmon; vg; STAR; TopHat; edgeR; R; Bowtie 2; KEGG; clusterProfiler; FactoMineR; ggplot2; systemPipeR; Bioconductor; Trimmomatic; GATK; Gurobi; MultiTrans; Scallop2; ShoRAH; SSP Cited in: 6 Publications all top 5 Cited by 13 Authors 2 Mäkinen, Veli 2 Tomescu, Alexandru Ioan 1 Akalin, Altuna 1 Dias, Fernando H. C. 1 Equi, Massimo 1 Franke, Verdan 1 Mumey, Brendan 1 Rizzo, Nicola 1 Ronen, Jonathan 1 Sirén, Jouni 1 Uyar, Bora 1 Williams, Lucia 1 Wolff, Alexander Cited in 1 Serial 1 Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series Cited in 4 Fields 4 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 3 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) Citations by Year