Blind spots of quantitative RNA-seq: The limits for assessing abundance, differential expression, and isoform switching

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rehrauer, Hubert ^a   Opitz, Lennart ^a   Tan, Ge ^a,b   Sieverling, Lina ^a   Schlapbach, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Hammersmith Hospital Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS WORKFLOW; BLIND SPOTS; COUNT MODELS; DETECTABILITY; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN GENOMES; TARGET GENES; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RNA; SWITCHING;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ISOPROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC DISK; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTIC DISK; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84890841194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-370     Document Type: Article

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