Exploring the shallow end; estimating information content in transcriptomics studies

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Kliebenstein, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

eQTL; Factorial genomics; Genetical genomics; Information content; Microarray; RNAseq; Sequencing depth; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894135987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00213     Document Type: Article

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