Comparison of normalization methods for differential gene expression analysis in RNA-Seq experiments: A matter of relative size of studied transcriptomes

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Maza, Elie ^a,b   Frasse, Pierre ^a,b   Senin, Pavel ^a,b   Bouzayen, Mondher ^a,b   Zouine, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Computational methods; Differential gene expression analysis; High throughput sequencing; Normalization methods; Relative transcriptome size; RNA Seq data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894069977     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.25849     Document Type: Article

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