[HTML][HTML] The technology and biology of single-cell RNA sequencing

AA Kolodziejczyk, JK Kim, V Svensson, JC Marioni… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
The differences between individual cells can have profound functional consequences, in
both unicellular and multicellular organisms. Recently developed single-cell mRNA …

Computational and analytical challenges in single-cell transcriptomics

O Stegle, SA Teichmann, JC Marioni - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The development of high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) at the single-cell level has
already led to profound new discoveries in biology, ranging from the identification of novel …

[HTML][HTML] Highly parallel genome-wide expression profiling of individual cells using nanoliter droplets

EZ Macosko, A Basu, R Satija, J Nemesh, K Shekhar… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Cells, the basic units of biological structure and function, vary broadly in type and state.
Single-cell genomics can characterize cell identity and function, but limitations of ease and …

[HTML][HTML] Droplet barcoding for single-cell transcriptomics applied to embryonic stem cells

AM Klein, L Mazutis, I Akartuna, N Tallapragada… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
It has long been the dream of biologists to map gene expression at the single-cell level. With
such data one might track heterogeneous cell sub-populations, and infer regulatory …

Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

A Zeisel, AB Muñoz-Manchado, S Codeluppi… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The mammalian cerebral cortex supports cognitive functions such as sensorimotor
integration, memory, and social behaviors. Normal brain function relies on a diverse set of …

A survey of human brain transcriptome diversity at the single cell level

S Darmanis, SA Sloan, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The human brain is a tissue of vast complexity in terms of the cell types it comprises.
Conventional approaches to classifying cell types in the human brain at single cell …

ZIFA: Dimensionality reduction for zero-inflated single-cell gene expression analysis

E Pierson, C Yau - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Single-cell RNA-seq data allows insight into normal cellular function and various disease
states through molecular characterization of gene expression on the single cell level …

Computational analysis of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-sequencing data reveals hidden subpopulations of cells

F Buettner, KN Natarajan, FP Casale, V Proserpio… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Recent technical developments have enabled the transcriptomes of hundreds of cells to be
assayed in an unbiased manner, opening up the possibility that new subpopulations of cells …

Single cell RNA-sequencing of pluripotent states unlocks modular transcriptional variation

AA Kolodziejczyk, JK Kim, JCH Tsang, T Ilicic… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Embryonic stem cell (ESC) culture conditions are important for maintaining long-term self-
renewal, and they influence cellular pluripotency state. Here, we report single cell RNA …

Advances and applications of single-cell sequencing technologies

Y Wang, NE Navin - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Single-cell sequencing (SCS) has emerged as a powerful new set of technologies for
studying rare cells and delineating complex populations. Over the past 5 years, SCS …