Alternative preprocessing of RNA-Sequencing data in the Cancer Genome Atlas leads to improved analysis results

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 3666-3672

  Rahman, Mumtahena ^a   Jackson, Laurie K ^b   Johnson, W Evan ^a,c   Li, Dean Y ^a   Bild, Andrea H ^a,b   Piccolo, Stephen R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84947721184     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv377     Document Type: Article

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