A survey of computational methods in transcriptome-wide alternative splicing analysis

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 59-66

  Wang, Jianbo ^a   Ye, Zhenqing ^a   Huang, Tim H M ^a   Shi, Huidong ^b   Jin, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative splicing (AS); differential splicing; exon skipping; graph based exon skipping scanner (GESS); RNA sequencing (RNA seq)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HISTONE CODE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTONE CODE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84925665346     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2014-0040     Document Type: Review

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