A brief review of single-cell transcriptomic technologies

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 64-76

  Kalisky, Tomer ^a   Oriel, Sarit ^a   Bar Lev, Tali Hana ^a   Ben Haim, Nissim ^a   Trink, Ariel ^a   Wineberg, Yishay ^a   Kanter, Itamar ^a   Gilad, Shlomit ^b   Pyne, Saumyadipta ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b R and D for Genomics in the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (G INCPM)   (Israel)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Genomics; RNA sequencing; Single cell technologies

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DATA ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85044146651     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elx019     Document Type: Review

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