Principles of transcriptome analysis and gene expression quantification: An RNA-seq tutorial

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 559-572

  Wolf, Jochen B W ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Next generation sequencing; Shotgun sequencing; Transcriptome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING;

EID: 84879330562     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12109     Document Type: Article

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