Single-cell and multivariate approaches in genetic perturbation screens

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 18-32

  Liberali, Prisca ^a   Snijder, Berend ^a,b   Pelkmans, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL POPULATION; DNA CONTENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC PERTURBATION SCREEN; GENETIC SCREENING; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRENDS;

GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84927125938     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3768     Document Type: Review

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