Single Cell Genomics: Advances and Future Perspectives

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Macaulay, Iain C ^a   Voet, Thierry ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ISOLATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE DISPLACEMENT AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR GROWTH; WHOLE TRANSCRIPTOME AMPLIFICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84896739948     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004126     Document Type: Review

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