Review Article

Disease-Associated Circular RNAs: From Biology to Computational Identification

Table 1

A comprehensive list of available pipelines and databases for detection, identification, and evaluation of circRNAs.

NameYearWeb functionsWeb linksLast updatedRefs.

MapSlice 22010A highly accurate algorithm for alignment of RNA-seq reads to splice junctionhttp://www.netlab.uky.edu/p/bioinfo/MapSplice206-13-2016[165]
Find_circ2013To detect backspliced sequencing reads, which is an indication of circRNAs in RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/marvin-jens/find_circ01-06-2017[32]
CIRCfinder2013A pipeline to map junction reads for intronic circRNAshttps://github.com/YangLab/CIRCfinder03-25-2016[166]
CircRNA_finder2014A pipeline to search for circRNAs from RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/orzechoj/circRNA_finder10-14-2019[167]
CIRI2015A de novo circRNA identification tool to detect circRNAs from transcriptome datahttps://sourceforge.net/projects/ciri/
https://omictools.com/ciri-tool
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ciri/
04-16-2020[168, 169]
KINFE2015Known and Novel IsoForm Explorer is a statistically based splicing detection tool for circRNAs and linear isoforms from RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/lindaszabo/KNIFE07-14-2017[45]
miARma-seq2016A comprehensive tool for the identification of miRNAs, mRNAs, and circRNAshttp://miarmaseq.cbbio.es/ (not accessible)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/miarma/
06-15-2018[170]
NCLscan2016A stepwise alignment strategy to eliminate false calls; to identify both intragenic and intergenic NCL transcripts from paired-end RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/TreesLab/NCLscan
ftp://treeslab1.genomics.sinica.edu.tw/NCLscan
05-21-2020[125]
UROBORUS2016A computational pipeline to detect circRNAs in total RNA-seq datahttp://uroborus.openbioinformatics.org/ (NA)NA[171]
deepBase v2.02016To decode evolution, expression patterns, and functions of diverse ncRNAs (incl. circRNAs) across 19 specieshttp://biocenter.sysu.edu.cn/deepBase/ (NA)
https://omictools.com/deepbase-tool
NA[172]
Acfs2016A pipeline for de novo circRNA identification, allowing the discovery of circRNAs from RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/arthuryxt/acfs02-16-2017[173]
pcircRNA_finder2016A pipeline for the prediction of plant circRNAshttp://ibi.zju.edu.cn/bioinplant/tools/manual.htmNA[174]
PTESFinder2016A computational pipeline for identifying posttranscriptional exon shuffling events from HTS datahttps://sourceforge.net/projects/ptesfinder-v1/09-04-2017[126]
CirComPara2017A multimethod comparative bioinformatics pipeline to detect and study circRNAs from RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/egaffo/CirComPara12-21-2016[172]
RAISE2017A pipeline for circRNA backsplice sites and used for identification, quantification of abundance, and prediction of their internal structure using RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/liaoscience/RAISE03-13-2017[175]
CircPro2017An integrated tool for identification of circRNAs with protein-coding potentialhttp://bis.zju.edu.cn/CircPro/NA[176]
AutoCirc2017A pipeline that allows definition of m6A circRNAs with cell-type-specific expressionhttps://github.com/chanzhou/AutoCirc04-08-2020[177]
PRAPI2018A pipeline to analyze differential expression of circRNAshttp://forestry.fafu.edu.cn/tool/PRAPI/12-05-2019[178]
hppRNA2018A snakemake-based RNA-seq pipeline to analyze circRNAshttps://sourceforge.net/projects/hpprna/12/18-2018[179]
NetMiner2018A pipeline to construct a high-quality RNA-seq-based gene coexpression network and to predict biological functions of novel circRNAshttps://github.com/czllab/NetMiner11-06-2017[180]
Docker4Circ2019A comprehensive analysis of circRNAs in human and model organisms, including circRNA prediction, classification, and annotationhttps://github.com/kendomaniac/docker4seq
https://github.com/mbeccuti/4SeqGUI
02-20-2019
07-21-2017
[181]
circtools2019A Python-based framework for circRNA-related tools that use a single command to unify different functionalitieshttps://github.com/dieterich-lab/circtools02-27-2019[182]
CircRNAFisher2019For de novo genome-wide circRNA identification and annotationhttps://github.com/duolinwang/CircRNAFisher.
Note: bowtie2 is required.
http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2
07-06-2019[183]
CIRCexplorer32019Analysis of circRNAs and linear RNAs from rRNA-depleted RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/YangLab/CLEAR
https://github.com/YangLab/CIRCexplorer2
01-28-2020[121, 184]
circCode2019A Python-based pipeline to identify the coding ability of circRNAshttps://github.com/PSSUN/CircCode05-19-2020[185]
circMiner2020A fast and sensitive tool to detect circRNAs from RNA-seq datahttps://github.com/vpc-ccg/circminer05-01-2020[186]
circDeep2020A deep learning approach for circRNA classification from long noncoding RNAshttps://github.com/UofLBioinformatics/circDeep01-28-2018[187]
circDBG2020circRNA detection from high-throughput sequence data with de Bruijn’s graphhttps://github.com/lxwgcool/CircDBG03-06-2020[188]
CircParser2020A Unix/Linux-based pipeline to predict host gene circRNAshttps://github.com/SharkoTools/CircParser03-27-2020[189]

NA: not applicable. Last access date: 05-25-2020.