Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

Single-cell RNA-seq technologies and related computational data analysis

G Chen, B Ning, T Shi - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies allow the dissection of gene
expression at single-cell resolution, which greatly revolutionizes transcriptomic studies. A …

Cancer SLC43A2 alters T cell methionine metabolism and histone methylation

Y Bian, W Li, DM Kremer, P Sajjakulnukit, S Li… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abnormal epigenetic patterns correlate with effector T cell malfunction in tumours,,–, but the
cause of this link is unknown. Here we show that tumour cells disrupt methionine …

PanglaoDB: a web server for exploration of mouse and human single-cell RNA sequencing data

O Franzén, LM Gan, JLM Björkegren - Database, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing is an increasingly used method to measure gene expression at
the single cell level and build cell-type atlases of tissues. Hundreds of single-cell …

SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data

MD Young, S Behjati - Gigascience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Droplet-based single-cell RNA sequence analyses assume that all acquired
RNAs are endogenous to cells. However, any cell-free RNAs contained within the input …

SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering

S Aibar, CB González-Blas, T Moerman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We present SCENIC, a computational method for simultaneous gene regulatory network
reconstruction and cell-state identification from single-cell RNA-seq data (http://scenic …

Slingshot: cell lineage and pseudotime inference for single-cell transcriptomics

K Street, D Risso, RB Fletcher, D Das, J Ngai, N Yosef… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Single-cell transcriptomics allows researchers to investigate complex
communities of heterogeneous cells. It can be applied to stem cells and their descendants in …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
These guidelines are a consensus work of a considerable number of members of the
immunology and flow cytometry community. They provide the theory and key practical …

Gene co-expression analysis for functional classification and gene–disease predictions

S Van Dam, U Vosa, A van der Graaf… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Gene co-expression networks can be used to associate genes of unknown function with
biological processes, to prioritize candidate disease genes or to discern transcriptional …

Single-cell RNA sequencing for the study of development, physiology and disease

SS Potter - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2018 - nature.com
An ongoing technological revolution is continually improving our ability to carry out very high-
resolution studies of gene expression patterns. Current technology enables the global gene …