Hi,
I have some questions regarding semantics surrounding the term RNAseq:
1. Who coined RNAseq? I was under the impression it was:
Mortazavi A, Williams BA, McCue K, Schaeffer L, Wold B. (2008). "Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-seq". Nature Methods 5 (7): 621–628. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1226. PMID 18516045.
Is this correct?
2. If Mortazavi et al (2008) coined the term then RNAseq refers to a reference genome based approach and not a de novo assembly approach since the technique described in Mortazavi et al purely reference based.
For clarity I think the term RNAseq should be reserved for an alignment based approach. Any thoughts on this?
I have some questions regarding semantics surrounding the term RNAseq:
1. Who coined RNAseq? I was under the impression it was:
Mortazavi A, Williams BA, McCue K, Schaeffer L, Wold B. (2008). "Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-seq". Nature Methods 5 (7): 621–628. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1226. PMID 18516045.
Is this correct?
2. If Mortazavi et al (2008) coined the term then RNAseq refers to a reference genome based approach and not a de novo assembly approach since the technique described in Mortazavi et al purely reference based.
For clarity I think the term RNAseq should be reserved for an alignment based approach. Any thoughts on this?
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