RNA sequencing and analysis

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 2015, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 951-969

  Kukurba, Kimberly R ^a   Montgomery, Stephen B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL POPULATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84945220306     PISSN: 19403402     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top084970     Document Type: Article

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