Using synthetic mouse spike-in transcripts to evaluate RNA-seq analysis tools

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Leshkowitz, Dena ^a   Feldmesser, Ester ^a   Friedlander, Gilgi ^a   Jona, Ghil ^a   Ainbinder, Elena ^a   Parmet, Yisrael ^b   Horn Saban, Shirley ^a,c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Galil Genetic Analysis Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPIKE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOUSE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84964794756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153782     Document Type: Article

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