Beyond comparisons of means: Understanding changes in gene expression at the single-cell level

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Vallejos, Catalina A ^a,b   Richardson, Sylvia ^a   Marioni, John C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular heterogeneity; Differential expression; Single cell RNA seq

Indexed keywords

CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MICE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84962861088     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0930-3     Document Type: Article

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