QoRTs: A comprehensive toolset for quality control and data processing of RNA-Seq experiments

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hartley, Stephen W ^a   Mullikin, James C ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Differential splicing; Differential transcript regulation; Next generation sequencing; Quality control; RNA Seq

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RNA; THROUGHPUT;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSIONS; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSCRIPT REGULATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PROCESSING TOOLS; SPLICE JUNCTIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

RNA;

CHEMISTRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERNET; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STANDARDS;

HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTERNET; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84937110093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0670-5     Document Type: Article

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