This Week in PNAS: Jan 10, 2012

Jan 10, 2012

Harvard University's X. Sunney Xie and his colleagues present what they call a "truly digital" RNA-seq approach. "Following reverse transcription, a large set of barcode sequences is added in excess, and nearly every cDNA molecule is uniquely labeled by random attachment of barcode sequences to both ends," Xie et al. write in a paper published online in advance in PNAS this week.

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