VDJSeq-Solver: In silico V(D)J recombination detection tool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Paciello, Giulia ^a   Acquaviva, Andrea ^a   Pighi, Chiara ^b,c   Ferrarini, Alberto ^b   Macii, Enrico ^a   Zamo, Alberto ^b   Ficarra, Elisa ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUMOR CELL; VDJ RECOMBINATION; CELL CLONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; LYMPHOMA, MANTLE-CELL; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; CLONE CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; LYMPHOMA, MANTLE-CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84925708269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118192     Document Type: Article

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