InFusion: Advancing discovery of fusion genes and chimeric transcripts from deep RNA-sequencing data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Okonechnikov, Konstantin ^a,c   Imai Matsushima, Aki ^a   Paul, Lukas ^b   Seitz, Alexander ^b   Meyer, Thomas F ^a   Garcia Alcalde, Fernando ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA STRAND; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFUSION; PROSTATE CANCER CELL LINE; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE FUSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85000702198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167417     Document Type: Article

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