Two complementary approaches, both using next-generation sequencing, have successfully tackled the scale and the complexity of mammalian transcriptomes, at once revealing unprecedented detail and allowing better quantification.
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Shendure, J. The beginning of the end for microarrays?. Nat Methods 5, 585–587 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0708-585
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