title: Studying bacterial transcriptomes using RNA-seq.
abstract: Genome-wide studies of bacterial gene expression are shifting from microarray technology to second generation sequencing platforms. RNA-seq has a number of advantages over hybridization-based techniques, such as annotation-independent detection of transcription, improved sensitivity and increased dynamic range. Early studies have uncovered a wealth of novel coding sequences and non-coding RNA, and are revealing a transcriptional landscape that increasingly mirrors that of eukaryotes. Already basic RNA-seq protocols have been improved and adapted to looking at particular aspects of RNA biology, often with an emphasis on non-coding RNAs, and further refinements to current techniques will improve our understanding of gene expression, and genome content, in the future.
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Croucher
authors.forename: Nicholas R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Thomson
mesh_terms: D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial