Single-cell transcriptional analysis

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages 439-462

  Wu, Angela R ^a   Wang, Jianbin ^b   Streets, Aaron M ^c   Huang, Yanyi ^d  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Heterogeneity; Microfluidics; Next generation sequencing; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA;

BIOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS;

CYTOLOGY;

DNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85020700849     PISSN: 19361327     EISSN: 19361335     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-061516-045228     Document Type: Review

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