Single-cell RNA-seq: Advances and future challenges

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 8845-8860

  Saliba, Antoine Emmanuel ^a   Westermann, Alexander J ^a   Gorski, Stanislaw A ^a   Vogel, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CYTOLYSIS; DNA BARCODING; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MICROFLUIDIC BASED CELL HANDLING; MICROMANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OPTOFLUIDIC BASED CELL HANDLING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STEM CELL;

CELL SEPARATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906228597     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku555     Document Type: Review

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