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cap analysis of gene expression assay
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A transcription profiling assay which measures RNA transcript abundances in biological samples by extracting 5' ends of capped transcripts, RTPCR and sequence those. Copy numbers of CAGE tags provide a way of quantification and provide a measure of expression of the transcriptome
Term info
Label
cap analysis of gene expression assay
alternative term
CAGE
definition source
PMID:14663149
editor preferred term
cap analysis of gene expression assay
example of usage
5' end-centered expression profiling using cap-analysis gene expression and next-generation sequencing. PMID:22362160
has curation status
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000122
term editor
Marcus Chibucos, Philippe Rocca-Serra
Term relations
Subclass of:
- polymerase chain reaction assay
- transcription profiling assay
- sequencing assay
- achieves_planned_objective some transcription profiling identification objective
- has part some reverse transcribed polymerase chain reaction
- has_specified_output some (is about some gene expression)
- has_specified_output some sequence data
- realizes some (
function and
inheres in some DNA sequencer) and has_specified_input some DNA sequencer - has_specified_input some RNA extract