The exon quantification pipeline (EQP): A comprehensive approach to the quantification of gene, exon and junction expression from RNA-seq data

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2016, Pages

  Schuierer, Sven ^a   Roma, Guglielmo ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; TIME FACTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84988931463     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw538     Document Type: Article

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