Technical Variations in Low-Input RNA-seq Methodologies

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bhargava, Vipul ^a   Head, Steven R ^b   Ordoukhanian, Phillip ^b   Mercola, Mark ^c,d   Subramaniam, Shankar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84902840108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03678     Document Type: Article

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