Long read analysis of human pluripotent stem cell transcripts

Transposable elements (TEs) occupy nearly 50% of mammalian genomes, and are a potential danger to genome stability, yet at the same time a source of evolutionary innovation when they are spliced into transcripts. However, the systematic contribution of TEs to coding and non-coding RNAs remains to be explored. Here, we explore the TE transcriptome of human pluripotent stem cells using long read and short read RNA-seq