Estimation of immune cell content in tumour tissue using single-cell RNA-seq data

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Schelker, Max ^a,b   Feau, Sonia ^a   Du, Jinyan ^a   Ranu, Nav ^a   Klipp, Edda ^b   MacBeath, Gavin ^a   Schoeberl, Birgit ^a   Raue, Andreas ^a  

^a MERRIMACK PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STROMA CELL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NEOPLASMS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85048532929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02289-3     Document Type: Article

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