Gene-level differential analysis at transcript-level resolution

Genome Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Yi, Lynn ^a,b   Pimentel, Harold ^c   Bray, Nicolas L ^d   Pachter, Lior ^b,e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Fisher's method; Gene ontology; Lancaster method; Meta analysis; P value aggregation; Pseudoalignment; RNA seq alignment; RNA seq quantification; RNA sequencing; Transcript compatibility counts; id k correction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; MICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 85045391037     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1419-z     Document Type: Article

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