Efficient experimental design and analysis strategies for the detection of differential expression using RNA-Sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Robles, José A ^a   Qureshi, Sumaira E ^b   Stephen, Stuart J ^a   Wilson, Susan R ^b,c   Burden, Conrad J ^b   Taylor, Jennifer M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential expression analysis; Experimental design; Multiplex; Replication; RNA Seq; Sequencing depth

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866158885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-484     Document Type: Article

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