Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Extension of human lncRNA transcripts by RACE coupled with long-read high-throughput sequencing (RACE-Seq)

  • Julien Lagarde,
  • Barbara Uszczynska-Ratajczak,
  • Javier Santoyo-Lopez,
  • Jose Manuel Gonzalez,
  • Electra Tapanari,
  • Jonathan M. Mudge,
  • Charles A. Steward,
  • Laurens Wilming,
  • Andrea Tanzer,
  • Cédric Howald,
  • Jacqueline Chrast,
  • Alicia Vela-Boza,
  • Antonio Rueda,
  • Francisco J. Lopez-Domingo,
  • Joaquin Dopazo,
  • Alexandre Reymond,
  • Roderic Guigó,
  • Jennifer Harrow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12339
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Long non-coding RNAs are increasingly recognised to be important factors in regulating cellular processes and comprise a large faction of the transcriptome, however most are uncharacterised. Here the authors present RACE-Seq, a tool to improve and extend the annotation of low-expression transcripts.