Image-based transcriptomics in thousands of single human cells at single-molecule resolution

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1127-1136

  Battich, Nico ^a   Stoeger, Thomas ^a   Pelkmans, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887115231     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2657     Document Type: Article

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