Single-Cell Alternative Splicing Analysis with Expedition Reveals Splicing Dynamics during Neuron Differentiation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 148-161.e5

  Song, Yan ^a   Botvinnik, Olga B ^a,b   Lovci, Michael T ^a,b   Kakaradov, Boyko ^a,b   Liu, Patrick ^a   Xu, Jia L ^a   Yeo, Gene W ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; bimodality; differentiation; modality; neuron; post transcription; RNA processing; single cell; stem cells

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL POPULATION; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; NERVE CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; READING FRAME; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BAYES THEOREM; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85021335524     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.06.003     Document Type: Article

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