Fusionfinder: A software tool to identify expressed gene fusion candidates from RNA-seq data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Francis, Richard W ^a   Thompson Wicking, Katherine ^a   Carter, Kim W ^a   Anderson, Denise ^a   Kees, Ursula R ^a   Beesley, Alex H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRK1 GENE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; INTERNET; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; VHL GENE;

AUTOMATION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84863009996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039987     Document Type: Article

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