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ReviewMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2025

Long-read RNA sequencing: A transformative technology for exploring transcriptome complexity in human diseases.

Isabelle Heifetz Ament, Nicole DeBruyne, Feng Wang, Lan Lin

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Review in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Isabelle Heifetz AmentDepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Nicole DeBruyneGraduate Group in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Feng WangCenter for Computational and Genomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: wangf3@chop.edu.
Lan LinCenter for Computational and Genomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: linlan@chop.edu.

Funding

Regulation and Function of RNA Editing in Human TranscriptomesR01GM121827 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LIN, LAN · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-read RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is emerging as a powerful and versatile technology for studying human transcriptomes. By enabling the end-to-end sequencing of full-length transcripts, long-read RNA-seq opens up avenues for investigating various RNA species and features that cannot be reliably interrogated by standard short-read RNA-seq methods. In this review, we present an overview of long-read RNA-seq, delineating its strengths over short-read RNA-seq, as well as summarizing recent advances in experimental and computational approaches to boost the power of long-read-based transcriptomics. We describe a wide range of applications of long-read RNA-seq, and highlight its expanding role as a foundational technology for exploring transcriptome variations in human diseases.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingSequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRNA-Seqisoformlong-readRNA modificationRNA-seqtranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID39563027
PMCPMC11897757

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