Allelic imbalance metre (Allim), a new tool for measuring allele-specific gene expression with RNA-seq data

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 740-745

  Pandey, Ram Vinay ^a   Franssen, Susanne U ^a,b   Futschik, Andreas ^c   Schlötterer, Christian ^a  

^a Institut fur Populationsgenetik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allele specific gene expression; Allelic imbalance; Gene expression; Mapping bias; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELIC IMBALANCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84879419235     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12110     Document Type: Article

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