Next generation sequencing of cellular RNA is making it possible to characterize genes and alternative splicing in unprecedented detail. However, designing bioinformatics tools to accurately capture splicing variation has proven difficult. Current programs can find major isoforms of a gene ...
Read More »Penn Researchers Illuminate “Dark Side” of the Transcriptome
New approach to quantifying gene “read-outs” reveals important variations in protein synthesis and has implications for understanding neurodegenerative diseases PHILADELPHIA— A new way of mapping the “transcriptome” — the collection of RNA read-outs that are expressed by a cell’s active ...
Read More »Microarray analysis workhorse limma – now capable of differential expression and differential splicing analyses of RNA-Seq data
limma is an R/Bioconductor software package that provides an integrated solution for analysing data from gene expression experiments. It contains rich features for handling complex experimental designs and for information borrowing to overcome the problem of small sample sizes. Over ...
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