Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Nanopore long-read RNAseq reveals widespread transcriptional variation among the surface receptors of individual B cells

  • Ashley Byrne,
  • Anna E. Beaudin,
  • Hugh E. Olsen,
  • Miten Jain,
  • Charles Cole,
  • Theron Palmer,
  • Rebecca M. DuBois,
  • E. Camilla Forsberg,
  • Mark Akeson,
  • Christopher Vollmers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16027
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Short-read RNA-seq is limited in its ability to resolve complex transcript isoforms since it cannot sequence full-length cDNA. Here the authors use Oxford Nanopore MinION and their Mandalorion analysis pipeline to measure complex isoforms in B1a cells.