Modeling alternative splicing variants from RNA-seq data with isoform graphs

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-40

  Beretta, Stefano ^a,b   Bonizzoni, Paola ^a   Vedova, Gianluca Della ^a   Pirola, Yuri ^a   Rizzi, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; splicing graph

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84891607232     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2013.0112     Document Type: Article

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