Comparison of clustering methods for high-dimensional single-cell flow and mass cytometry data

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1084-1096

  Weber, Lukas M ^a   Robinson, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; cell populations; clustering; CyTOF; F1 score; flow cytometry; high dimensional; manual gating; mass cytometry; single cell

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 85006826083     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.23030     Document Type: Article

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