Statistical issues in the analysis of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq data

Genes

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 317-334

  Ghosh, Debashis ^a   Qin, Zhaohui S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Next generation sequencing; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952095113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes1020317     Document Type: Review

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