MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key post-transcriptional regulators that affect protein translation by targeting mRNAs. Their role in disease etiology and toxicity are well recognized. Given the rapid advancement of next-generation sequencing techniques, miRNA profiling has been increasingly conducted with RNA-seq, namely ...
Read More »Viral diagnostics in plants using RNA-Seq
Viruses cause significant yield and quality losses in a wide variety of cultivated crops. Hence, the detection and identification of viruses is a crucial facet of successful crop production and of great significance in terms of world food security. Whilst ...
Read More »systemPipeR – NGS workflow and report generation environment
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized how research is carried out in many areas of biology and medicine. However, the analysis of NGS data remains a major obstacle to the efficient utilization of the technology, as it requires complex multi-step processing ...
Read More »Whole-Transcriptome Amplification of Single Cells for Next-Generation Sequencing
Single-cell transcriptome analysis gives insight into the heterogeneity of neighboring cells in tissues or cell cultures. It has been shown that the variability of cells is important for biological function. However, cell variability can be an indication of disease (e.g., ...
Read More »Choosing a next-generation sequencing pipeline
The next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are revolutionary tools which have made possible achieving remarkable advances in genetics since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Thanks to the possibility to produce large amount of sequence data, these tools are going to ...
Read More »Next-generation sequencing turns 10!
Ten years ago next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies appeared on the market. During the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in terms of speed, read length, and throughput, along with a sharp reduction in per-base cost. Together, these advances democratized ...
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