Scater: Pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R

Bioinformatics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1179-1186

  McCarthy, Davis J ^a,b,c   Campbell, Kieran R ^b,d   Lun, Aaron T L ^e   Wills, Quin F ^b,f  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

CELL LINE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

CELL LINE; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85019072518     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw777     Document Type: Article

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