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Tool Overview

rseqc-redux provides 33 command-line tools for RNA-seq quality control. All tools follow the same pattern:

tool_name.py [options]

All tools

BAM Statistics

Tool Description
bam_stat.py Summarize mapping statistics of a BAM file
bam2fq.py Convert BAM alignments to FASTQ format
bam2wig.py Convert BAM file to wiggle format
divide_bam.py Equally divide BAM file into n parts
split_bam.py Split BAM by gene list
split_paired_bam.py Split paired-end BAM into two single-end BAMs

Read Quality

Tool Description
read_quality.py Phred quality score distribution across read positions
read_GC.py GC content distribution of reads
read_NVC.py Nucleotide frequency per read position (NVC plot)
read_hexamer.py Hexamer frequency analysis
read_duplication.py Sequence- and mapping-based duplication rates
read_distribution.py Read distribution over genomic features

Alignment Profiles

Tool Description
clipping_profile.py Soft-clipping profile across read positions
deletion_profile.py Deletion distribution across read positions
insertion_profile.py Insertion distribution across read positions
mismatch_profile.py Mismatch distribution across read positions

Gene Body & Expression

Tool Description
geneBody_coverage.py RNA-seq read coverage over gene body
geneBody_coverage2.py Gene body coverage from BigWig input
FPKM_count.py Raw count, FPM, and FPKM per gene
FPKM-UQ.py Count, FPKM, and FPKM-UQ per gene
RPKM_saturation.py RPKM saturation analysis
tin.py Transcript integrity number

Junction Analysis

Tool Description
junction_annotation.py Annotate splice junctions against gene model
junction_saturation.py Junction discovery saturation analysis

Fragment & Strandedness

Tool Description
infer_experiment.py Infer strandedness of RNA-seq experiment
inner_distance.py Inner distance (insert size) of RNA-seq fragments
RNA_fragment_size.py Fragment size statistics per gene

BigWig Utilities

Tool Description
normalize_bigwig.py Normalize BigWig signal to fixed wigsum
overlay_bigwig.py Pairwise operations on two BigWig files

Single Cell

Tool Description
sc_bamStat.py Single-cell RNA-seq mapping statistics
sc_editMatrix.py Barcode/UMI error correction heatmaps
sc_seqLogo.py DNA sequence logo from FASTQ/FASTA
sc_seqQual.py Sequencing quality heatmap from FASTQ