De novo reconstruction of the Toxoplasma gondii transcriptome improves on the current genome annotation and reveals alternatively spliced transcripts and putative long non-coding RNAs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hassan, Musa A ^a   Melo, Mariane B ^a   Haas, Brian ^b   Jensen, Kirk D C ^a   Saeij, Jeroen P J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; LincRNA; RNA seq; Toxoplasma; Transcriptome; Trinity

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXODB GENE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84870880579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-696     Document Type: Article

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