Computational approaches for isoform detection and estimation: Good and bad news

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Angelini, Claudia ^a   Canditiis, Daniela D ^b   Feis, Italia D ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; RNA;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; ISOFORM QUANTIFICATIONS; PRECISION AND RECALL; TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EUKARYOTA;

RNA ISOFORM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; RNA ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84900491119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-135     Document Type: Article

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