From reads to genes to pathways: Differential expression analysis of RNA-Seq experiments using Rsubread and the edgeR quasi-likelihood pipeline

F1000Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Yunshun ^a,b   Lun, Aaron T L ^c   Smyth, Gordon K ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PIPELINE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RNA SEQUENCE; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85011000155     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/F1000RESEARCH.8987.2     Document Type: Article

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