QuickRNASeq lifts large-scale RNA-seq data analyses to the next level of automation and interactive visualization

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zhao, Shanrong ^a   Xi, Li ^a   Quan, Jie ^a   Xi, Hualin ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   von Schack, David ^a   Vincent, Michael ^a   Zhang, Baohong ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Batch processing; D3; High performance computing; JQuery; Large scale data analysis; Pipeline; RNA seq; Visualization; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; HUMAN; PIPELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SEQUENCE; SCIENTIST; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WORKFLOW; ALGORITHM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84953392390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2356-9     Document Type: Article

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