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Nature Genetics 40, 935 - 936 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0808-935

Mapping the strand-specific transcriptome of fission yeast

Thomas R Gingeras1

  1. Thomas R. Gingeras is at the Department of Functional Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 11724, USA.
    e-mail: tom_gingeras@affymetrix.com


Pervasive genome-wide transcription is widespread in eukaryotic cells, but key features of the transcriptome have yet to be fully characterized. A new study using antibody-based detection of RNA-DNA duplexes on tiling arrays now reveals a complex, strand-specific transcriptional world in fission yeast.

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