Of contigs and quagmires: Next-generation sequencing pitfalls associated with transcriptomic studies

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 551-558

  Dewoody, J Andrew ^a,b   Abts, Kendra C ^b   Fahey, Anna L ^b   Ji, Yanzhu ^b   Kimble, Steven J A ^b   Marra, Nicholas J ^b   Wijayawardena, Bhagya K ^a   Willoughby, Janna R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

454; Genomics; Illumina; Next generation sequencing; RNA seq; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA CONTAMINATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA CONTAMINATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84879413303     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12107     Document Type: Article

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