xCell: Digitally portraying the tissue cellular heterogeneity landscape

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Aran, Dvir ^a   Hu, Zicheng ^a   Butte, Atul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMPUTER MODEL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SOLID MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; STROMA CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFTWARE;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85034614124     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1349-1     Document Type: Article

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