Massive parallel sequencing of transcriptomes, revealed the presence of many miRNAs and miRNAs variants named isomiRs with a potential role in several cellular processes through their interaction with a target mRNA. Many methods and tools have been recently devised to ...
Read More »An iteration normalization and test method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data
Next generation sequencing technologies are powerful new tools for investigating a wide range of biological and medical questions. Statistical and computational methods are key to analyzing massive and complex sequencing data. In order to derive gene expression measures and compare ...
Read More »A Comparison of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies for Transcriptome Assembly
De novo assembled transcriptomes, in combination with RNA-Seq, are powerful tools to explore gene sequence and expression level in organisms without reference genomes. Investigators must first choose which high throughput sequencing platforms will provide data most suitable for their experimental ...
Read More »miRPlant – an integrated tool for identification of plant miRNA from RNA sequencing data
Small RNA sequencing is commonly used to identify novel miRNAs and to determine their expression levels in plants. There are several miRNA identification tools for animals such as miRDeep, miRDeep2 and miRDeep*. miRDeep-P was developed to identify plant miRNA using ...
Read More »Bitseq found to produce the most accurate measures of gene expression
RNA-sequencing data analysis method BitSeq developed by Academy Research Fellow Antti Honkela?s research group and University of Manchester researchers has been found to be the most accurate gene transcript expression estimation method in a large international assessment. The method is ...
Read More »Using galaxy-P to leverage RNA-Seq for the discovery of novel protein variations
Current practice in mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics is to identify peptides by comparison of experimental mass spectra with theoretical mass spectra derived from a reference protein database; however, this strategy necessarily fails to detect peptide and protein sequences that are ...
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