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Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology (Online Edition), January 2011
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9 tweeters
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Title
Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias
Published in
Genome Biology (Online Edition), January 2011
DOI 10.1186/gb-2011-12-3-r22
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Authors

Adam Roberts, Cole Trapnell, Julie Donaghey, John L Rinn, Lior Pachter

Abstract

The biochemistry of RNA-Seq library preparation results in cDNA fragments that are not uniformly distributed within the transcripts they represent. This non-uniformity must be accounted for when estimating expression levels, and we show how to perform the needed corrections using a likelihood based approach. We find improvements in expression estimates as measured by correlation with independently performed qRT-PCR and show that correction of bias leads to improved replicability of results across libraries and sequencing technologies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 71 4%
United Kingdom 18 1%
Germany 13 <1%
Brazil 11 <1%
France 7 <1%
Italy 6 <1%
China 6 <1%
Spain 5 <1%
Mexico 5 <1%
Other 53 3%
Unknown 1519 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 502 29%
Researcher 449 26%
Student > Master 165 10%
Student > Bachelor 111 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 85 5%
Other 292 17%
Unknown 110 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 951 55%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 321 19%
Computer Science 96 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 42 2%
Mathematics 33 2%
Other 136 8%
Unknown 135 8%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2023.
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#1,603,146
of 23,538,320 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#1,405
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#8,808
of 183,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#27
of 139 outputs
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