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Is sequencing enlightenment ending the dark age of the transcriptome?

Sequencing-based technologies for RNA discovery are playing a key role in deciphering the transcriptome and hold the potential to provide us with a census of RNAs and their functions.

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Figure 1: Challenges in assembling RNA-seq data.

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Carninci, P. Is sequencing enlightenment ending the dark age of the transcriptome?. Nat Methods 6, 711–713 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1009-711

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