Challenges and emerging directions in single-cell analysis

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Yuan, Guo Cheng ^a,b   Cai, Long ^c   Elowitz, Michael ^d   Enver, Tariq ^e   Fan, Guoping ^f   Guo, Guoji ^g   Irizarry, Rafael ^a,b   Kharchenko, Peter ^h   Kim, Junhyong ⁱ   Orkin, Stuart ^a,j,k   Quackenbush, John ^a,b   Saadatpour, Assieh ^a,b   Schroeder, Timm ^l   Shivdasani, Ramesh ^a   Tirosh, Itay ^m  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^j BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^m BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OPTICAL IMAGING; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85019078781     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1218-y     Document Type: Letter

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