Plant Public RNA‐seq Database: a comprehensive online database for expression analysis of ~45 000 plant public RNA‐Seq libraries

生物 RNA序列 核糖核酸 计算生物学 数据库 在线数据库 转录组 遗传学 基因表达 基因 计算机科学
作者
Yiming Yu,Hong Zhang,Yanping Long,Yi Shu,Jixian Zhai
出处
期刊:Plant Biotechnology Journal [Wiley]
卷期号:20 (5): 806-808 被引量:74
标识
DOI:10.1111/pbi.13798
摘要

Dear Editor, High-throughput RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has become the most popular technology for profiling gene expression in the last decade due to its low cost and high coverage. As a result, the number of RNA-seq libraries from the plant community has been increasing exponentially in recent years (Figure 1a). For major crops, such as maize, rice, soybean, wheat and cotton, the plant community has collected a total of ~45 000 libraries by 2021 (Figure 1b). Although currently there are several RNA-seq databases for plants, for example, CoNekT with 750 rice and 574 maize RNA-seq libraries (https://conekt.sbs.ntu.edu.sg/). However, these existing databases only host the already processed data from each study separately, and therefore, the expression values cannot be directly compared among projects, because they were derived from different bioinformatic pipelines and often mapped to different versions of the reference genomes. To take full advantage of the big data of RNA-seq libraries, an effort to integrate all publicly available libraries via a uniformed processing pipeline and curate them into an easy-to-use searchable database is urgently needed. To address this challenge, here we present a comprehensive web-based platform, Plant Public RNA-seq Database (PPRD, http://ipf.sustech.edu.cn/pub/plantrna/). PPRD consists of a large number of RNA-seq libraries of maize (19 664), rice (11 726), soybean (4085), wheat (5816) and cotton (3483) from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Sequence Read Archive (SRA), European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) databases (Figure 1b). These RNA-seq data are manually curated to highlight different mutants, tissues, developmental stages and abiotic or biotic stresses. Besides showing expression patterns from different tissues and developmental stages (Figure 1c–e), we also annotated the mutant-related groups and treatment-associated groups in our maize, rice, soybean, wheat and cotton database, respectively (Figure 1f,g). To reduce the quantification biases derived from differing bioinformatic processes, we processed the data of each species with a unified pipeline and the most up-to-date reference genomes (more details on the ‘Tutorials’ page and Appendix S1). Moreover, the database also provided hyperlinks to check the expression level of the homologous genes in other plants and supported a built-in online Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) (Figure 1h; Robinson et al., 2017). In general, PPRD supports searches by gene ID, library ID, BioProject IDs, keywords or any combination of these terms in selected libraries. After querying the above terms, the results in tables and diagrams will be returned. Here, we take the query results of a key regulator of plant small RNA biogenesis, OsDCL3a (LOC_Os01g68120) (Wei et al., 2014), to illustrate the database. After entering ‘LOC_Os01g68120’ in a ‘Google-like’ search box, the ‘Information’ page will return the basic information of this gene. PPRD also provides hyperlinks for easy access to more information about the corresponding gene in the species-related websites, such as MaizeGDB for maize (Portwood et al., 2019), RGAP for rice (Kawahara et al., 2013) and SoyBase for soybean (Brown et al., 2021). On the ‘Data Table’ page, detailed information could be displayed in a table, and various ‘Filter’ options are designed to allow users to select specific libraries. The ‘Data Plot’ page shows the results of expression comparison in multiple interactive diagrams, including expression levels among different tissues, developmental stages, abiotic and biotic stresses and up-regulated or down-regulated expression in mutant-related or treatment-related samples. The ‘CoExpression’ page provides a list of genes co-expressed with the searched one, and the ‘IGV Online’ page is flexible for visualizing the mapping landscape of the local genomic region in selected libraries. In addition, the ‘Share’ function was supported to facilitate showing the results with others. Here, we used the tissue-specific expressed genes to validate the results. The expression levels of these genes are consistent with previous studies, such as endosperm-specific expression of gene ZmESR1 (Zm00001d027820) in maize (Opsahl-Ferstad et al., 1997), endosperm-specific expression of gene Wx (LOC_Os06g04200) in rice (Sano, 1984) and root-specific expression of gene GmTIP4;1 (Glyma.06G084600) in soybean (Song et al., 2016) (Figure 1c–e). Plant Public RNA-seq Database also supports users to perform data mining from the large-scale database efficiently. The brown planthopper (BPH) is the most destructive pest that has a massive impact on rice production by the transformations of viruses, and OsLecRK3 (LOC_Os04g12580) is a crucial gene that confers resistance to the BPH (Liu et al., 2015). As expected, OsLecRK3 showed higher expression in some viruses-related libraries (Figure 1f). To our surprise, OsLecRK3 is down-regulated in many drought-related libraries, suggesting that OsLecRK3 plays a crucial role in drought resistance (Figure 1g). In addition, the mapping details of this gene can be visualized using the built-in IGV browser (Figure 1h). This example showed the exciting power of big data in providing novel insights and quickly developing robust, testable hypotheses with no experimental cost. In summary, PPRD is a convenient, web-accessible, user-friendly RNA-seq database that allows users to quickly scan the gene expression from maize, rice, soybean, wheat or cotton public RNA-seq libraries and returns the multiple forms of results in tables and diagrams, showing the expression levels in various tissues, developmental stages, abiotic stresses, biotic stresses, as well as the differential expression in different mutants and treatments. Our previous Arabidopsis RNA-seq database (ARS) has been updated recently, and the number of libraries has been increased from 20 068 to 28 164 (Zhang et al., 2020). We also plan to continue updating PPRD regularly by including new libraries and new plant species in the future. We believe PPRD will help make the transcriptome big data more available and accessible for our plant community members. We thank all the research groups that contributed RNA-seq data to the public, and we apologize for not being able to cite all the related papers in the main text due to limited space. The list of all public RNA-seq libraries included in the database can be found on the ‘All Libraries’ page. The Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Entrepreneurial Teams (2016ZT06S172). The authors declare no conflicts of interest. H.Z., Y.Y., Y.L. and Y.S. analysed the data, H.Z. and Y.Y. processed the data and built the database and website, and J.Z oversaw the study. Y.Y., H.Z. and J.Z. wrote the manuscript. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
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