Function Name Full Term Contributors Ref.
ChIP-Seq
Mapping MAQ Mapping and Assembly with Quality Durbin et al., The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK [53]
Bowtie/Bowtie2 --- Langmead et al., University of Maryland, USA [54, 55]
BWA Burrows-Wheeler Aligner Durbin et al., The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK [56, 57]
  Calling Peaks FindPeaks --- Fejes et al., BC Cancer Agency, Canada [69]
peakSeq --- Rozowsky et al., Yale University, USA [70]
cisGenome --- Wong et al., Stanford University, USA [71]
SiSSRs Site Identification from Short Sequence Reads Zhao et al., National Institutes of Health, USA [72]
QuEST Quantitative Enrichment of Sequence Tags Sidow et al., Stanford University, USA [16]
MACS Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq Liu et al., Harvard University, USA [73]
USeq --- Nix et al., University of Utah, USA [78]
RNA-Seq
Mapping TopHat --- Salzberg et al., The Johns Hopkins University, USA [62]
ERANGE Enhanced Read Analysis of Gene Expression Wold et al., California Institute of Technology, USA [63]
QPALMA Optimal Spliced Alignments of Short Sequence Reads Rätsch et al., Max Planck Society, Germany [64]
Subread --- Shi et al., The University of Melbourne, Australia [65]
STAR Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference Dobin et al., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA [66]
HISAT Hierarchical Indexing for Spliced Alignment of Transcripts Salzberg et al., The Johns Hopkins University, USA [67]
RPKM/FPKM calculations IsoInfer Inference of isoforms Fenget al., Tongji University, China [79]
Scripture --- Guttman et al., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA [80]
SLIDE Sparse linear modeling of RNA-Seq data for isoform discovery and abundance estimation Huang et al., University of California, Berkeley, USA [81]
IsoLasso Isoforms of Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator Li et al.,University of California, Riverside, USA [82]
iReckon Isoform reconstruction and abundance estimation Brudno et al.,University of Toronto, Canada [83]
Traph Transcripts in gRAPHs Tomescu et al., University of Helsinki, Finland [84]
Cufflinks --- Pachter et al., University of California, Berkeley, USA [85]
MiTie Mixed Integer Transcript IdEntification Behr et al., Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA [86]
StringTie --- Salzberg et al., The Johns Hopkins University, USA [87]
MethylC-Seq
Mapping and determine of T/C ratio BSMap Bisulfite sequence MAPping Li et al., Baylor College of Medicine, USA [58]
Bismark --- Krueger et al., The Babraham Institute, UK [59]
BS-Seeker Precise mapping for bisulfite sequencing Pellegrini et al., University of California, Los Angeles, USA [60]
MethylCoder --- Pedersen et al.,  University of California, Berkeley, USA [61]
Table 1: Popular software packages in data processing of genome-wide massively parallel sequencing data.