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      What is RSEM? | Pluto Help Center

      Transcript abundance quantification tool

      Written by Rani Powers, PhD


      Read more about RSEM on the Pluto Blog.


      RSEM       is an accurate and user-friendly software package for quantifying gene and isoform abundances from single-end or paired-end RNA-Seq data. RSEM outputs abundance estimates, 95% credibility intervals, and visualization files and can be used with or without a reference genome.

      References:

      Li, B., Dewey, C.N. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome. BMC Bioinformatics 12, 323 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-323