[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Tutorial: guidelines for the computational analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data

TS Andrews, VY Kiselev, D McCarthy, M Hemberg - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a popular and powerful technology that allows
you to profile the whole transcriptome of a large number of individual cells. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

[HTML][HTML] Statistics or biology: the zero-inflation controversy about scRNA-seq data

R Jiang, T Sun, D Song, JJ Li - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Researchers view vast zeros in single-cell RNA-seq data differently: some regard zeros as
biological signals representing no or low gene expression, while others regard zeros as …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic evaluation of single-cell RNA-sequencing imputation methods

W Hou, Z Ji, H Ji, SC Hicks - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The rapid development of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq)
technologies has led to the emergence of many methods for removing systematic technical …

Droplet scRNA-seq is not zero-inflated

V Svensson - Nature Biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
To the Editor—Potential users of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) 1 often
encounter a choice between highthroughput droplet-based methods and high-sensitivity …

Separating measurement and expression models clarifies confusion in single-cell RNA sequencing analysis

A Sarkar, M Stephens - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The high proportion of zeros in typical single-cell RNA sequencing datasets has led to
widespread but inconsistent use of terminology such as dropout and missing data. Here, we …

Studying stochastic systems biology of the cell with single-cell genomics data

G Gorin, JJ Vastola, L Pachter - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Recent experimental developments in genome-wide RNA quantification hold considerable
promise for systems biology. However, rigorously probing the biology of living cells requires …

[HTML][HTML] A hitchhiker's guide to single-cell transcriptomics and data analysis pipelines

R Nayak, Y Hasija - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
Single-cell transcriptomics (SCT) is a tour de force in the era of big omics data that has led to
the accumulation of massive cellular transcription data at an astounding resolution of single …

Modelling capture efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing data improves inference of transcriptome-wide burst kinetics

W Tang, ACS Jørgensen, S Marguerat, P Thomas… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Gene expression is characterized by stochastic bursts of transcription that occur
at brief and random periods of promoter activity. The kinetics of gene expression burstiness …