bio-rna-quantification-alignment-free-quant

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SKILL.md

Alignment-Free Quantification

Quantify transcript abundance directly from FASTQ reads using pseudo-alignment (kallisto) or selective alignment (Salmon).

Salmon Workflow

Build Index

# Download transcriptome FASTA
# Ensembl: Homo_sapiens.GRCh38.cdna.all.fa.gz

# Basic index (fast, less accurate)
salmon index -t transcripts.fa -i salmon_index

# Decoy-aware index (recommended for accuracy)
# First, create decoys from genome
grep "^>" genome.fa | cut -d " " -f 1 | sed 's/>//g' > decoys.txt
cat transcripts.fa genome.fa > gentrome.fa
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