Data exploration, quality control and testing in single-cell qPCR-based gene expression experiments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 461-467

  McDavid, Andrew ^a,b   Finak, Greg ^b   Chattopadyay, Pratip K ^c   Dominguez, Maria ^c   Lamoreaux, Laurie ^c   Ma, Steven S ^c   Roederer, Mario ^c   Gottardo, Raphael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874321000     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts714     Document Type: Article

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