Isoform prefiltering improves performance of count-based methods for analysis of differential transcript usage

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Soneson, Charlotte ^a   Matthes, Katarina L ^a,b   Nowicka, Malgorzata ^a   Law, Charity W ^c   Robinson, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparison; Differential Splicing; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; ISOPROTEIN; RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIN READ COUNTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSCRIPT USAGE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOFORM PREFILTERING; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; EXONS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84956574798     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0862-3     Document Type: Article

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