Full-length RNA-seq from single cells using Smart-seq2

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 171-181

  Picelli, Simone ^a   Faridani, Omid R ^a   Björklund, Åsa K ^a,b   Winberg, Gösta ^a,b   Sagasser, Sven ^a,b   Sandberg, Rickard ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; MAMMAL CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENE LIBRARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891677425     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.006     Document Type: Article

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