Transcriptomics in the RNA-seq era

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-11

  McGettigan, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANALYZER; BIOINFORMATICS; CHIP SEQ; DIGITAL GENE EXPRESSION; DNASE SEQ; EPIGENETICS; FAIRE SEQ; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84875247710     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.12.008     Document Type: Review

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