Splatter: Simulation of single-cell RNA sequencing data

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zappia, Luke ^a,b   Phipson, Belinda ^a   Oshlack, Alicia ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

RNA seq; Simulation; Single cell; Software

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATASETS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85029212828     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1305-0     Document Type: Article

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