Quartz-Seq: A highly reproducible and sensitive single-cell RNA sequencing method, reveals nongenetic gene-expression heterogeneity

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Sasagawa, Yohei ^a,c   Nikaido, Itoshi ^a,c   Hayashi, Tetsutaro ^a   Danno, Hiroki ^a   Uno, Kenichiro D ^a   Imai, Takeshi ^a,b   Ueda, Hiroki R ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cell biology; Cellular heterogeneity; RNA seq; Sequencing; Single cell; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84876085773     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-4-r31     Document Type: Article

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