Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 562-578

  Trapnell, Cole ^a,b   Roberts, Adam ^c   Goff, Loyal ^a,b,d   Pertea, Geo ^e,f   Kim, Daehwan ^e,g   Kelley, David R ^a,b   Pimentel, Harold ^c   Salzberg, Steven L ^e,f   Rinn, John L ^a,b   Pachter, Lior ^c  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859885816     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.016     Document Type: Article

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