The study of RNA has been dramatically improved by the introduction of Next Generation Sequencing platforms allowing massive and cheap sequencing of selected RNA fractions, also providing information on strand orientation (RNA-Seq). The complexity of transcriptomes and of their regulative ...
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from Medical Xpress Sequencing RNA, not just DNA, could help doctors predict how prostate cancer tumors will respond to treatment, according to research published in the open access journal Genome Biology. Because a tumor’s RNA shows the real time changes ...
Read More »Hypoxic signature of microRNAs in glioblastoma: insights from small RNA deep sequencing
Hypoxia is a critical aspect of the glioma microenvironment and has been associated with poor prognosis and resistance to various therapies. However, the mechanisms responsible for hypoxic survival of glioma cells remain unclear. Recent studies strongly suggest that microRNAs act ...
Read More »RAP: RNA-seq Pipeline web tool – tutorial 1: analysis submission and monitoring
RAP: RNA-Seq Analysis Pipeline RNA-Seq technology is becoming widely used in various transcriptomics studies; however, analyzing and interpreting the RNA-Seq data face serious challenges due to transcriptome complexity. A complete RNA-seq analysis involves several steps and the data can be ...
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