Modelling and simulating generic RNA-Seq experiments with the flux simulator

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10073-10083

  Griebel, Thasso ^a,b   Zacher, Benedikt ^b,c   Ribeca, Paolo ^a,b   Raineri, Emanuele ^b   Lacroix, Vincent ^a,d   Guigó, Roderic ^a   Sammeth, Michael ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b Centre Nacional d'Analisi Genomica CNAG   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYDROLYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HYDROLYSIS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84869036699     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks666     Document Type: Article

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