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Consensus Ensemble Approaches Improve De Novo Transcriptome Assemblies, Adam Voshall
Consensus Ensemble Approaches Improve De Novo Transcriptome Assemblies, Adam Voshall
Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Accurate and comprehensive transcriptome assemblies lay the foundation for a range of analyses, such as differential gene expression analysis, metabolic pathway reconstruction, novel gene discovery, or metabolic flux analysis. With the arrival of next-generation sequencing technologies it has become possible to acquire the whole transcriptome data rapidly even from non-model organisms. However, the problem of accurately assembling the transcriptome for any given sample remains extremely challenging, especially in species with a high prevalence of recent gene or genome duplications, those with alternative splicing of transcripts, or those whose genomes are not well studied. This thesis provides a detailed overview of …