Advances and Applications of Single-Cell Sequencing Technologies

Molecular Cell

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 598-609

  Wang, Yong ^a   Navin, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CELL ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOSAICISM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL SEQUENCING; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANIMAL; FORECASTING; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929661801     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.05.005     Document Type: Review

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