**ZARP** ([Zavolan-Lab][zavolan-lab] Automated RNA-Seq Pipeline) is a generic RNA-Seq analysis pipeline that allows users to process and analyze Illumina short-read sequencing libraries with minimum effort. The pipeline relies on publicly available bioinformatics tools and currently handles single or paired-end stranded bulk RNA-seq data. The workflow is developed in [Snakemake][snakemake], a widely used workflow management system in the bioinformatics community.
Currently ZARP supports:
- adapter-trimming
- read alignment
- genome / transcriptome quantification
- principal component analysis of all the samples included in the analysis
- topology analysis
[Snakemake][snakemake] workflow that covers common steps of short read RNA-Seq
library analysis developed by the [Zavolan lab][zavolan-lab].