Single cell multi-omics technology: Methodology and application

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2018, Pages

  Hu, Youjin ^a   An, Qin ^b   Sheu, Katherine ^b   Trejo, Brandon ^b   Fan, Shuxin ^a   Guo, Ying ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Gene regulation; Single cell epigenome; Single cell multi omics profiling; Single cell proteome; Single cell transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046653336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2018.00028     Document Type: Review

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