With the rapid development of next generation deep sequencing technologies,sequencing cDNA reverse-transcribed from RNA molecules(RNA-Seq)has become a key approach in studying gene expression and transcriptomes.Becaus...With the rapid development of next generation deep sequencing technologies,sequencing cDNA reverse-transcribed from RNA molecules(RNA-Seq)has become a key approach in studying gene expression and transcriptomes.Because RNA-Seq does not rely on annotation of known genes,it provides the opportunity of discovering transcripts that have not been annotated in current databases.Studying the distribution of RNASeq signals and a systematic view on the potential new transcripts revealed from the signals is an important step toward the understanding of transcriptomes.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61021063 and 60928007).
文摘With the rapid development of next generation deep sequencing technologies,sequencing cDNA reverse-transcribed from RNA molecules(RNA-Seq)has become a key approach in studying gene expression and transcriptomes.Because RNA-Seq does not rely on annotation of known genes,it provides the opportunity of discovering transcripts that have not been annotated in current databases.Studying the distribution of RNASeq signals and a systematic view on the potential new transcripts revealed from the signals is an important step toward the understanding of transcriptomes.