Quantitative assessment of single-cell RNA-sequencing methods

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-46

  Wu, Angela R ^a   Neff, Norma F ^a   Kalisky, Tomer ^a,f   Dalerba, Piero ^b,c   Treutlein, Barbara ^a   Rothenberg, Michael E ^b   Mburu, Francis M ^a,d   Mantalas, Gary L ^a   Sim, Sopheak ^b   Clarke, Michael F ^b,c   Quake, Stephen R ^a,d,e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MICROANALYSIS; MICROLITER VOLUME; NANOANALYSIS; NANOLITER VOLUME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING; CELL STRAIN HCT116; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HCT116 CELL LINE; PROCEDURES;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84893910301     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2694     Document Type: Article

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