Soft truncation thresholding for gene set analysis of RNA-seq data: Application to a vaccine study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fridley, Brooke L ^a   Jenkins, Gregory D ^b   Grill, Diane E ^b,c   Kennedy, Richard B ^b,c   Poland, Gregory A ^b,c   Oberg, Ann L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Health Sciences Research ^*  (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMARKERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

EID: 84885440313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02898     Document Type: Article

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