High-throughput phenotyping using parallel sequencing of RNA interference targets in the African trypanosome

Genome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 915-924

  Alsford, Sam ^a   Turner, Daniel J ^b,c   Obado, Samson O ^a,d   Sanchez Flores, Alejandro ^b   Glover, Lucy ^a   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Hertz Fowler, Christiane ^b,e   Horn, David ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIFFERENTIATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

HEXAPODA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79955602637     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.115089.110     Document Type: Article

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