Single-cell isoform RNA sequencing characterizes isoforms in thousands of cerebellar cells

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1197-1202

  Gupta, Ishaan ^a   Collier, Paul G ^a   Haase, Bettina ^b   Mahfouz, Ahmed ^a,c,d   Joglekar, Anoushka ^a   Floyd, Taylor ^a   Koopmans, Frank ^e   Barres, Ben ^f   Smit, August B ^e   Sloan, Steven A ^f   Luo, Wenjie ^a   Fedrigo, Olivier ^b   Ross, M Elizabeth ^a   Tilgner, Hagen U ^a  

^a FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; RNA; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BULK TISSUE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENOME ANNOTATION; GRANULE CELLS; RNA SEQUENCING; SINGLE CELLS; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMES;

CELLS;

RNA ISOFORM; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ASTROCYTE; CEREBELLUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 85058796569     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4259     Document Type: Article

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