Comparative Analysis of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Methods

Molecular Cell

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 631-643.e4

  Ziegenhain, Christoph ^a   Vieth, Beate ^a   Parekh, Swati ^a   Reinius, Björn ^b,c   Guillaumet Adkins, Amy ^d,e   Smets, Martha ^a   Leonhardt, Heinrich ^a   Heyn, Holger ^d,e   Hellmann, Ines ^a   Enard, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness; method comparison; power analysis; simulation; single cell RNA seq; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85013200683     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.01.023     Document Type: Article

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