Challenges and strategies in transcriptome assembly and differential gene expression quantification. A comprehensive in silico assessment of RNA-seq experiments

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 620-634

  Vijay, Nagarjun ^a   Poelstra, Jelmer W ^a   Künstner, Axel ^b   Wolf, Jochen B W ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; comparative genomics; differential gene expression; RNA seq; simulation; systems biology; transcriptome assembly

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FINCH; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINCHES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84872483518     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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