Expression analysis and genome annotations with RNA sequencing

mRNA-Seq analysis with next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides large-scale gene expression profiles. Expression profile analysis against large-scale data permits us to discover novel genes with specific expression profiles. In this chapter, methods for mRNA-Seq analysis with NGS and large-scale expression analysis are introduced. It has become difficult to handle large-scale expression data by conventional statistical methods, such as hierarchical clustering method, as most of these methods for the large-scale expression data require long calculation times and substantial computer resources. Therefore, large-scale expression analysis methods that are efficiently and quickly executable without large computer resources are the main focus here.