Statistical and Computational Methods for High-Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis of Alternative Splicing

Statistics in Biosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 138-155

  Chen, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; High throughput sequencing; RNA seq; Transcript isoform

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877047001     PISSN: 18671764     EISSN: 18671772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12561-012-9064-7     Document Type: Article

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