Experimental design, preprocessing, normalization and differential expression analysis of small RNA sequencing experiments

Silence

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  McCormick, Kevin P ^a   Willmann, Matthew R ^b   Meyers, Blake C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 79957578583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1758907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-907X-2-2     Document Type: Review

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