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Comment
. 2014 Apr 29;15(4):112.
doi: 10.1186/gb4172.

Discovering the complexity of the metazoan transcriptome

Matthew J Hangauer, Susan Carpenter, Michael T McManus
Comment

Discovering the complexity of the metazoan transcriptome

Matthew J Hangauer et al. Genome Biol. .

Abstract

Recent studies harnessing deep RNA sequencing coupled with other complementary data have revealed the complex nature of metazoan transcriptomes.

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Discovering the complexities of human and Drosophila transcriptomes. The ENCODE (left-hand side) and modENCODE (right-hand side) projects have used a diverse set of techniques to provide an unprecedented view of the human and Drosophila transcriptomes.
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