Tag Archives: isoform

Current methods for determining RNA structure with short-read sequencing cannot capture most differences between distinct transcript isoforms. Researchers at A*STAR, Singapore present RNA structure analysis using nanopore sequencing...

Full-length isoform sequencing has advanced our knowledge of isoform biology. However, apart from applying full-length isoform sequencing to very few single cells, isoform sequencing has been limited...

The automated transcript discovery and quantification of high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data are important tasks of next-generation sequencing (NGS) research. However, these tasks are challenging due to the uncertainties that arise in the inference of complete splicing isoform variants from ...

Numerous methods have been developed to analyse RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data, but most rely on the availability of a reference genome, making them unsuitable for non-model organisms. Here researchers from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne present superTranscripts, a substitute for ...

Sequencing of RNA provides the possibility to study an individual’s transcriptome landscape and determine allelic expression ratios. Single-molecule protocols generate multi-kilobase reads longer than most transcripts allowing sequencing of complete haplotype isoforms. This allows partitioning the reads into two parental ...

Genetic Engineering News by Richard Stein – Two technologies used to interrogate gene expression, RNA-Seq and microarray analysis, often return strongly correlated results. These technologies, however, have not been evaluated for their concordance at the isoform level. To understand the ...

While RNA-Seq has enabled great progress towards the goal of wide-scale isoform-level mRNA quantification, short reads have limitations when resolving complex or similar sets of isoforms. As a result, estimates of isoform abundance carry far more uncertainty than those made ...

Isoform quantification is an important goal of RNA-seq experiments, yet it remains problematic for genes with low expression or several isoforms. These difficulties may in principle be ameliorated by exploiting correlated experimental designs, such as time series or dosage response ...

Deep sequencing has been revolutionizing biology and medicine in recent years, providing single base-level precision for our understanding of nucleic acid sequences in high throughput fashion. Sequencing of RNA, or RNA-Seq, is now a common method to analyze gene expression ...

The histologic grade (HG) of breast cancer is an established prognostic factor. The grade is usually reported on a scale ranging from 1 to 3, where grade 3 tumours are the most aggressive. However, grade 2 is associated with an ...