Mining RNA-seq data for infections and contaminations.

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provides novel opportunities for transcriptomic studies at nucleotide resolution, including transcriptomics of viruses or microbes infecting a cell. However, standard approaches for mapping the resulting sequencing reads generally ignore alternative sources of expression oth...

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Main Authors: Thomas Bonfert, Gergely Csaba, Ralf Zimmer, Caroline C Friedel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3760913?pdf=render