Processing and Analysis of RNA-seq Data from Public Resources

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2021 Feb 19

PMID 33606253

Citations 10

Authors

Yazeed Zoabi

Noam Shomron

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Abstract

Advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies resulted in a broad array of large-scale gene expression studies and an unprecedented volume of whole messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing data, or the transcriptome (also known as RNA sequencing, or RNA-seq). These include the Genotype Tissue Expression project (GTEx) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), among others. Here we cover some of the commonly used datasets, provide an overview on how to begin the analysis pipeline, and how to explore and interpret the data provided by these publicly available resources.

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