FIRMA: A method for detection of alternative splicing from exon array data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1707-1714

  Purdom, E ^a   Simpson, K M ^b   Robinson, M D ^b,c   Conboy, J G ^d   Lapuk, A V ^d   Speed, T P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COLON CANCER; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 48249128721     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn284     Document Type: Article

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