Single cell proteomics in biomedicine: High-dimensional data acquisition, visualization, and analysis

Proteomics

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages

  Su, Yapeng ^a   Shi, Qihui ^b   Wei, Wei ^a,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information theoretical approaches; Mass cytometry; Single cell barcode chip; Single cell data analysis; Single cell proteomics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; PHYSICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85012906748     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201600267     Document Type: Review

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