Comparative study of de novo assembly and genome-guided assembly strategies for transcriptome reconstruction based on RNA-Seq

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-155

  Lu, BingXin ^a   Zeng, ZhenBing ^a   Shi, TieLiu ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

de novo assembly; genome guided assembly; RNA Seq; transcriptome reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873719491     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-013-4442-z     Document Type: Article

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