Epitranscriptome sequencing technologies: Decoding RNA modifications

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 23-31

  Li, Xiaoyu ^a   Xiong, Xushen ^a   Yi, Chengqi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYLMETHYLCYTIDINE; 5 METHYLCYTIDINE; 6 N METHYLADENOSINE; ADENOSINE; DNA; EPITRANSCRIPTOME; INOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; N1 METHYLADENOSINE; N6,2' O DIMETHYLADENOSINE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOURIDINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; RNA;

ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HUMAN; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA MODIFICATION; RNA PROCESSING; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85007518551     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4110     Document Type: Review

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