The Flux Project is a bioinformatics approach to understand high-throughput sequencing applied to the transcriptome (RNA-Seq). The project comprises a deterministic simulation pipeline, called the Flux Simulator, that models in silico the steps that determine amount and distribution of reads observed in an RNA-Seq experiment. Another program, known as the Flux Capacitor, aims at the deconvolution of such reads in order to determine the abundances of every transcript species in a cell.
Resources
The sitemap provides a comprehensive overview of this website. Popular entry points are the download section, the summary about ongoing discussions in the forum, recently reported and addressed issues, and the general introduction for the Flux Capacitor respectively the Flux Simulator. In addition to these static pages, the Flux Project employs external resources from the sites listed below.
A video hosted at SciVee summarizes the challenges for analyzes of RNA-Seq data, and systematical sources of bias that affect certain steps in experimental pipelines that so far have been proposed for sample preparation.
Hosted at Wikidot, a steadily growing amount of documentation and posts is available in form of wiki pages. Updates of the wiki are broadcast in form of an RSS feeds, one for changes to the user manual and another providing news on ongoing discussions.
Google code hosts the download repository of the project, and a tracker for currently known issues. New files in the repository are communicated through a corresponding RSS download feed, posts about new or known problems are available via the issue feed.
News
The Flux News RSS feed, also available as JSON, comprises all project updates, i.e., new downloads, manual entries, posts to discussions and reports on bugs in the program. The items below document most recent activity in the Flux Project, the complete feed is provided as a Yahoo pipe.
