Batch effects in single-cell RNA-sequencing data are corrected by matching mutual nearest neighbors

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 421-427

  Haghverdi, Laleh ^a,b   Lun, Aaron T L ^c   Morgan, Michael D ^d   Marioni, John C ^a,c,d  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; RNA;

ANALYSIS METHOD; BATCH EFFECT; CELL POPULATIONS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; RNA SEQUENCING; SINGLE CELLS;

CELLS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATCHING MUTUAL NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85046289733     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4091     Document Type: Article

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