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Nature Methods 6, 790–791 (1 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/nmeth1109-790b

The true RNA-seq

Nicole Rusk

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is actually a misnomer for the increasingly popular technique to determine the sequence of transcripts. It is not the RNA that is being sequenced but its reverse-transcribed cDNA derivative.