With the help of high-throughput NGS (next-generation sequencing) technologies, ancestral transcriptome reconstruction is helpful to understand the complexity of transcriptional regulatory systems that underlies the evolution of multiple cellular metazoans with sophisticated functions and distinctive.,,
Read More »A modified RNA-seq method for microbial community and diversity analysis using rRNA
RNA-seq-based SSU (small subunit) rRNA (ribosomal RNA) analysis has provided a better understanding of potentially active microbial community within environments. However, for RNA-seq library construction, high quantities of purified RNA are typically required. Fudan University researchers propose a modified RNA-seq ...
Read More »The results obtained by RNA-Seq and microarrays are highly reproducible
RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) and microarray are two of the most commonly used high-throughput technologies for transcriptome profiling; however, they both have their own inherent strengths and limitations. Researchers from Fudan University aimed to analyze the correlation between microarrays and RNA-Seq detection of ...
Read More »Can single-cell RNA sequencing crack the mystery of cells?
There is a rapid increase of evidence to address the importance of the interaction between single cells, drugs, and the response of single cells to therapies. Single-cell measurements were used to evaluate the DNA-damaging ability of the herbicide in freshly ...
Read More »TreeExp1.0 – R Package for Analyzing Expression Evolution Based on RNA-Seq Data
Recent innovation of RNA-seq technology has shed insightful light on the transcriptomic evolution studies, especially on researches of tissue-specific expression evolution. Phylogenetic analysis of transcriptome data may help to identify causal gene expression differences underlying the evolutionary changes in morphological, ...
Read More »multiDE – a dimension reduced model based statistical method for differential expression analysis using RNA-sequencing data with multiple treatment conditions
The growing complexity of biological experiment design based on high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is calling for more accommodative statistical tools. Researchers at Fudan University have developed a novel method, multiDE, for facilitating DE analysis using RNA-seq read count data with ...
Read More »Does gene length effect variance estimation of RNA-Seq read counts?
Next-generation sequencing technologies are widely used in genome research, and RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is becoming the main application for gene expression profiling. A large number of computational methods have been developed for analyzing differentially expressed (DE) genes in RNA-Seq data. ...
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