Clinical Genomics Podcast | The Importance of RNA-Sequencing

Kip Harry interviews Dr. David Smith from the Mayo Clinic, and Dr. Melanie Lehman from Queensland University of Technology for the upcoming RNA-Seq and Transcriptome Analysis meeting, 5-6 December in Lisbon, Portugal. Discussion points during the interview include: • The advantages of using RNA-Seq for expression analysis over microarrays • The impact of RNA-Seq on research and recent advances in the applications of this technology • Ways in which RNA-Seq is being utilized clinically • Current challenges/limitations with RNA-Seq