Design and Analysis of Single-Cell Sequencing Experiments

Cell

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 799-810

  Grün, Dominic ^a,b,c   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION NOISE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; MICROMANIPULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CELLS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84946226911     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.039     Document Type: Review

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