Sequencing depth and coverage: Key considerations in genomic analyses

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 121-132

  Sims, David ^a   Sudbery, Ian ^a   Ilott, Nicholas E ^a   Heger, Andreas ^a   Ponting, Chris P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYZER; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME CONFORMATION CAPTURE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CROSS LINKING; DISEASE MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STUDY DESIGN; THEORY; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS;

EID: 84892728434     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3642     Document Type: Review

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