Design and computational analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bacher, Rhonda ^a   Kendziorski, Christina ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962658087     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0927-y     Document Type: Review

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