Microfluidic isoform sequencing shows widespread splicing coordination in the human transcriptome

Genome Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 231-242

  Tilgner, Hagen ^a   Jahanbani, Fereshteh ^b   Gupta, Ishaan ^a   Collier, Paul ^a   Wei, Eric ^b   Rasmussen, Morten ^c   Snyder, Michael ^b  

^a FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arc Bio LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; ISOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85041465019     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.230516.117     Document Type: Article

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