Announcement: FusionInspector 2.6.0 and STAR-Fusion 1.10.1 Releases

[Brian Haas]

Greetings all,

A new version of FusionInspector is now available:

https://github.com/FusionInspector/FusionInspector/releases/tag/FusionInspector-v2.6.0

This version includes some new functionality aimed at helping to discriminate between biologically relevant fusion transcripts and others such as likely RT or bioinformatic artifacts. Details are here: https://github.com/FusionInspector/FusionInspector/wiki/COSMIC-like-fusion-prediction

and there'll be more precise details coming on this soon.

STAR-Fusion is also updated mainly to incorporate this latest version of FusionInspector:
https://github.com/STAR-Fusion/STAR-Fusion/releases/tag/STAR-Fusion-v1.10.1

Both use the existing latest (March 2021) versions of the CTAT genome libs: https://data.broadinstitute.org/Trinity/CTAT_RESOURCE_LIB/

and another reminder that if you have that version of the ctat genome lib installed, be sure to update the included AnnotFilterRule.pm to exclude 'red herring' fusions (ie. those found recurrent in normal tissues / GTEx). Details for that are included in the README file in the ctat genome lib site: https://data.broadinstitute.org/Trinity/CTAT_RESOURCE_LIB/00__README.txt