SpliceGrapher: Detecting patterns of alternative splicing from RNA-Seq data in the context of gene models and EST data

Genome Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rogers, Mark F ^a   Thomas, Julie ^b   Reddy, Anireddy S N ^b   Ben Hur, Asa ^a,b  

^a Colorado State University   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON SKIPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; RNA SPLICING;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RNA SPLICE SITES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863419877     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r4     Document Type: Article

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