Directional RNA-seq reveals highly complex condition-dependent transcriptomes in E. coli K12 through accurate full-length transcripts assembling

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Li, Shan ^a   Dong, Xia ^a,b   Su, Zhengchang ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative operon; Antisense RNA; Assembly; E. coli; Non coding RNA; Prokaryote; RNA seq; Transcription start site; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME SIZE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHNNP GENE; PREDICTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84880888853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-520     Document Type: Article

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