Oxford University Press (OUP), Bioinformatics, 7(28), p. 921-928
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts055
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Motivation: Quantification of sequence abundance in RNA-Seq experiments is often conflated by protocol-specific sequence bias. The exact sources of the bias are unknown, but may be influenced by polymerase chain reaction amplification, or differing primer affinities and mixtures, for example. The result is decreased accuracy in many applications, such as de novo gene annotation and transcript quantification.