Abbreviations
- AWS EC2: Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute
- BAM: Binary Sequence Alignment/Map
- BED: Browser Extensible Data
- CIGAR: Compact Idiosyncratic Gapped Alignment Report
- DNA: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
- FPKM: Fragments Per Kilobase Of Exon Per Million Fragments Mapped
- FPM: Fragments Per Million Fragments Mapped
- GFF: Generic Feature Format
- GTF: Gene Transfer Format
- IGB: Integrated Genome Browser
- IGV: Integrative Genome Viewer
- PCA: Principal Component Analysis
- polyA: Polyadenylation
- QC: Quality Control
- qPCR: Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA: Ribonucleic acid
- RPKM: Reads Per Kilobase Of Exon Per Million Fragments Mapped
- RPM: Reads Per Million Fragments Mapped
- RT-PCR: Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction