RNA-Seq: A revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-63

  Wang, Zhong ^a   Gerstein, Mark ^a   Snyder, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOINFORMATICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 57749195712     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2484     Document Type: Review

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