Single-cell transcriptomics bioinformatics and computational challenges

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Poirion, Olivier B ^a   Zhu, Xun ^a,b   Ching, Travers ^a,b   Garmire, Lana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Heterogeneity; Microevolution; Single cell analysis; Single cell genomics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACHINE LEARNING; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84992163193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00163     Document Type: Short Survey

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