Spliced synthetic genes as internal controls in RNA sequencing experiments

Nature Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 792-798

  Hardwick, Simon A ^a,b   Chen, Wendy Y ^a,b   Wong, Ted ^a   Deveson, Ira W ^a,b   Blackburn, James ^a,b   Andersen, Stacey B ^c   Nielsen, Lars K ^c   Mattick, John S ^a,b   Mercer, Tim R ^a,b  

^a GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA ISOFORM; RNA SEQUINS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; EXON; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STANDARDS; SYNTHESIS;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84981274155     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3958     Document Type: Article

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