Comparative evaluation of gene set analysis approaches for RNA-Seq data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rahmatallah, Yasir ^a   Emmert Streib, Frank ^b   Glazko, Galina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; GENES; RNA; STATISTICAL TESTS; TESTING;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TYPE I ERROR RATE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

RNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, X-LINKED; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84923922737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-014-0397-8     Document Type: Article

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