Validating transcripts with probes and imaging technology

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages S12-S19

  Itzkovitz, Shalev ^a   van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MESSENGER RNA;

DATA ANALYSIS; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PROBE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR BEACON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953273690     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1573     Document Type: Article

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