Over time, we will capture sample protocols for the analysis of Transposable Elements.
The tables below provide links to protocol papers. Tutorials (step-by-step instructions) have now been moved to a dedicated section of the website.
Currently, two tables distinguish Bioinformatic and Molecular Biology protocols.
| Protocol name | Programs | TE analysis | TE type | Protocol link | Model(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Novo Annotation of Transposable Elements: Tackling the Fat Genome Issue | REPET | large genome TE annotation | all TE | Jamilloux et al., 2017 | Plants | 2017 |
| SCIFER: : approach for analysis of LINE-1 mRNA expression in single cells at a single locus resolution | cellranger, bowtie1 | Single-Cell RNA-seq | LINE1 | Stow et al., 2022 | human, mouse | 2022 |
| Curation Guidelines for de novo Generated Transposable Element Families | alignAndCallConsensus, ClusterPartialMatchingSubs, AutoRunBlocker | curation, subfamily analaysis | all TE | Storer et al. 2021 | Mammalia | 2021 |
| Mining of Miniature Transposable Elements in Brassica Species at BrassicaTED | BrassicaTED | database search | MITE | Jayakodi et al., 2021 | Plants, Brassica | 2021 |
| Bioinformatics Analysis Guides to LTR Retrotransposon-Derived Extrachromosomal Linear DNAs Identified by ALE-seq | ALE-seq | high-throughput identification of novel LTR | LTR | Wang et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| Detection of Transposition Events from Next-Generation Sequencing Data | TIF | insertion polymorphism | All TE with TSD | Miyao 2021 | --- | 2021 |
| Efficient Detection of Transposable Element Insertion Polymorphisms Between Genomes Using Short-Read Sequencing Data | SPLITREADER, TEPID | insertion polymorphism | all TE | Baduel et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| Detecting Signatures of TE Polymorphisms in Short-Read Sequencing Data | Detettore | insertion polymorphism | all TE | Stritt et al., 2021 | Plants, Brachypodium | 2021 |
| A Predictive Approach to Infer the Activity and Natural Variation of Retrotransposon Families in Plants | LTRpred | functional annotation | LTR | Benoit et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| In Silico Identification of Stress-Associated Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Public Transcriptome Data | StringTie, edgeR | differential expression | all TE | Doğa et al. 2021 | --- | 2021 |
| A Tutorial of EDTA: Extensive De Novo TE Annotator | EDTA | de novo repeat identification from genome assembly | all TE | Su et al. 2021 | --- | 2021 |
| Global analysis of repetitive DNA from unassembled sequence reads using RepeatExplorer2 | RepeatExplorer2 | in silico repeat identification by read clustering | all TE | Novák et al. 2020 | --- | 2020 |
| An Overview of Best Practices for Transposable Element Identification, Classification, and Annotation in Eukaryotic Genomes | Multiple | TE identification, annotation, classification, | all TE | Rodriguez and Arkhipova., 2022 | All | 2022 |
| Assembly-Free Detection and Quantification of Transposable Elements with dnaPipeTE | dnaPipeTE | TE annotation and quantification from short-reads | all TE | Goubert 2022 | All | 2022 |
| Detecting Horizontal Transfer of Transposons | Multiple | Detection of HTT | all TE | Galbraith et al., 2022 | All | 2022 |
| Genotyping of Transposable Element Insertions Segregating in Human Populations Using Short-Read Realignments | ERVcaller, MELT2, TypeREF | Insertion Polymorphisms | Alu, L1, SVA, HERV | Chen et al., 2022 | Mammal | 2022 |
| A Pangenome Approach to Detect and Genotype TE Insertion Polymorphisms | Multiple | insertion polymorphism, pangenome | Alu, L1, SVA | Groza et al., 2022 | Mammal | 2022 |
| Quantification of LINE-1 RNA Expression from Bulk RNA-seq Using L1EM | L1EM | Bulk, locus-specific RNA-seq | LINE-1 | McKerrow 2022 | --- | 2022 |
| Protocol name | Method name | TE analysis | TE type | Protocol link | Model(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detection of Transposable Element Insertions in Arabidopsis Using Sequence Capture | Sequence Capture | insertion polymorphism | all TE | Quadrana et al., 2021 | Plants, Arabidopsis | 2021 |
| Genome-Wide Identification of Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements by Targeted High-Throughput Sequencing | targeted high-throughput sequencing | MITE | Tang et al., 2021 | Plants, Rice | 2021 | |
| Identification of Extrachromosomal Circular Forms of Active Transposable Elements Using Mobilome-Seq | Mobilome-Seq | active DNA transposons and retrotransposons | Extrachromosomal Circular TE | Tang et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| Identification of Active Transposable Elements in Plants: The Mobilome-Seq Approach | Mobilome-Seq | active DNA transposons and retrotransposons | Retrotransposons | Thieme et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| High-Throughput Profiling of Extrachromosomal Linear DNAs of Long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons by ALE-seq | ALE-seq | high-throughput identification of novel LTR | LTR | Wang et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| Determination of TE Insertion Positions Using Transposon Display | Transposon Display | insertion polymorphism | Retrotransposons | Kim et al., 2021 | Plants | 2021 |
| Quantitative Measurement of Transposon Copy Number Using the Droplet Digital PCR | ddPCR | copy number variation | Retrotransposons, EVADE | Fan et al., 2021 | Plants, Arabidopsis | 2021 |
| Measurement of Genetic Mobility Using a Transposon-Based Marker System in Sorghum | TE-TRAP | PCR-based marker | PIF/Harbinger | Stritt et al., 2021 | Plants, Sorghum | 2021 |
| Sequence-Specific Amplified Polymorphism (SSAP) and Sequence Characterized Amplified Region (SCAR) Markers in Zea mays | Sequence-specific amplified polymorphism (SSAP), Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) | insertion polymorphism | LTR | Roy et al., 2021 | Plants, Maize | 2021 |
| Experimental Validation of Transposable Element Insertions Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) | Citizen Fly Lab | insertion polymorphism | All | Merenciano et al., 2022 | Drosophila | 2022 |
| Genome-Wide Young L1 Methylation Profiling by bs-ATLAS-seq | bs-ATLAS-seq | Methylation Profiling | L1HS | Philippe and Cristofari, 2022 | human | 2022 |
| Nanopore Sequencing to Identify Transposable Element Insertions and Their Epigenetic Modifications | --- | targeted long-read sequencing, insertion polymorphism, 5mC methylation | All (L1 as example) | Smits and Faulkner, 2022 | All | 2022 |
| Inferring Protein-DNA Binding Profiles at Interspersed Repeats Using HiChIP and PAtChER | HiChIP, PAtChER | ChIP-seq, Hi-C, protein binding profiling | All | Taylor and Branco, 2022 | All | 2022 |
| Affinity-Based Interactome Analysis of Endogenous LINE-1 Macromolecules | --- | Affinity capture, Protein complexes, Interactomics | LINE-1 | Di Stefano et al., 2022 | --- | 2022 |
| LINE-1 Retrotransposition Assays in Embryonic Stem Cells | --- | Retrotransposition assay | LINE-1, Alu | Di Stefano et al., 2022 | human, mice | 2022 |
| Experimental Approaches to Study Somatic Transposition in Drosophila Using Whole-Genome DNA Sequencing | --- | Somatic transposition, WGS, long-read sequencing, short-read sequencing | --- | van den Beek et al., 2022 | Drosophila | 2022 |
| Precise and Scarless Insertion of Transposable Elements by Cas9-Mediated Genome Engineering | --- | CRISPR-Cas9, Knock-in, Homology-directed repair | LINE-1 | Marie Weber et al., 2022 | mammal | 2022 |
| Epigenetic Manipulation of Transposable and Repetitive Elements | --- | Transcriptional repression/activation, TALE technology, Epigenetic modifications, Dual luciferase assay | LINE-1 | Jachowicz 2022 | mammal | 2022 |
| Genetic Knockout of TE Insertions by CRISPR-Cas9 | --- | CRISPR-Cas9, Knockout | --- | Simpson and Chuong 2022 | mammalian cell-lines | 2022 |
| Targeted analysis of transposable element methylation levels and transcriptome in single cells | scTEM-seq | Methylation, Trabscriptomics, Single Cell | --- | Hunt et al., 2022 | human cell-lines | 2022 |