BMC Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 31;7:3 doi:10.1186/1471-2199-7-3

Schroeder A, Mueller O, Stocker S, Salowsky R, Leiber M, Gassmann M, Lightfoot S, Menzel W, Granzow M, Ragg T.

The RIN: an RNA integrity number for assigning integrity values to RNA measurements.

Primary reference for RINs