Discrete distributional differential expression (D3E) - a tool for gene expression analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Delmans, Mihails ^a   Hemberg, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential gene expression; Single cell RNA seq; Software; Stochastic gene expression; Transcriptional bursting model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELLS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CYTOLOGY; GENES; RNA; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL INSIGHT; DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSIONS; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELLS; STOCHASTIC GENE EXPRESSIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL BURSTING;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

RNA;

ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84962119091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-0944-6     Document Type: Article

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