A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

A Conesa, P Madrigal, S Tarazona, D Gomez-Cabrero… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has a wide variety of applications, but no single
analysis pipeline can be used in all cases. We review all of the major steps in RNA-seq data …

Mass cytometry: single cells, many features

MH Spitzer, GP Nolan - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Technology development in biological research often aims to either increase the number of
cellular features that can be surveyed simultaneously or enhance the resolution at which …

[HTML][HTML] A step-by-step workflow for low-level analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data with Bioconductor

ATL Lun, DJ McCarthy, JC Marioni - F1000Research, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is widely used to profile the transcriptome of
individual cells. This provides biological resolution that cannot be matched by bulk RNA …

Pooling across cells to normalize single-cell RNA sequencing data with many zero counts

AT L. Lun, K Bach, JC Marioni - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Normalization of single-cell RNA sequencing data is necessary to eliminate cell-specific
biases prior to downstream analyses. However, this is not straightforward for noisy single …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular diversity of midbrain development in mouse, human, and stem cells

G La Manno, D Gyllborg, S Codeluppi, K Nishimura… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Understanding human embryonic ventral midbrain is of major interest for Parkinson's
disease. However, the cell types, their gene expression dynamics, and their relationship to …

Revealing the vectors of cellular identity with single-cell genomics

A Wagner, A Regev, N Yosef - Nature biotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics has now made it possible to create a comprehensive atlas of human
cells. At the same time, it has reopened definitions of a cell's identity and of the ways in …

Classification of low quality cells from single-cell RNA-seq data

T Ilicic, JK Kim, AA Kolodziejczyk, FO Bagger… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has broad applications across biomedical
research. One of the key challenges is to ensure that only single, live cells are included in …

Design and computational analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments

R Bacher, C Kendziorski - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a revolutionary tool that allows
us to address scientific questions that eluded examination just a few years ago. With the …

Single-cell analysis tools for drug discovery and development

JR Heath, A Ribas, PS Mischel - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The genetic, functional or compositional heterogeneity of healthy and diseased tissues
presents major challenges in drug discovery and development. Such heterogeneity hinders …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomics reveals that differentiation and spatial signatures shape epidermal and hair follicle heterogeneity

S Joost, A Zeisel, T Jacob, X Sun, G La Manno… - Cell systems, 2016 - cell.com
The murine epidermis with its hair follicles represents an invaluable model system for tissue
regeneration and stem cell research. Here we used single-cell RNA-sequencing to reveal …