Single-cell topological RNA-seq analysis reveals insights into cellular differentiation and development

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 551-560

  Rizvi, Abbas H ^a,b   Camara, Pablo G ^a   Kandror, Elena K ^a,b   Roberts, Thomas J ^a,b   Schieren, Ira ^a,b   Maniatis, Tom ^a,b   Rabadan, Raul ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; NEURONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; STEM CELLS; TOPOLOGY;

CELLULAR DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; MURINE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROGRAM; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

CYTOLOGY;

CELL SURFACE MARKER; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CRABP1 PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; EGFP PROTEIN; EN1 PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; HOXA1 PROTEIN; HOXA2 PROTEIN; HOXA3 PROTEIN; HOXB2 PROTEIN; HOXB8 PROTEIN; HOXC5 PROTEIN; HOXD3 PROTEIN; HOXD4 PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RETINOIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VSX2 PROTEIN; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENITOR CELL LINE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 85020483426     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3854     Document Type: Article

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