Characterizing the replicability of cell types defined by single cell RNA-sequencing data using MetaNeighbor

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Crow, Megan ^a   Paul, Anirban ^a   Ballouz, Sara ^a   Huang, Z Josh ^a   Gillis, Jesse ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COMPONENT; DATA SET; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; META-ANALYSIS; RNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDENTITY; INTERNEURON; MARKER GENE; META ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

RNA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; NEURONS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85042801480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03282-0     Document Type: Article

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