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 …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic performance evaluation of clustering methods for single-cell RNA-seq data

A Duò, MD Robinson, C Soneson - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Subpopulation identification, usually via some form of unsupervised clustering, is a
fundamental step in the analysis of many single-cell RNA-seq data sets. This has motivated …

Exploring the single-cell RNA-seq analysis landscape with the scRNA-tools database

L Zappia, B Phipson, A Oshlack - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
As single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets have become more widespread the
number of tools designed to analyse these data has dramatically increased. Navigating the …

Quantitative single-cell transcriptomics

C Ziegenhain, B Vieth, S Parekh… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is currently transforming our understanding of
biology, as it is a powerful tool to resolve cellular heterogeneity and molecular networks …

[HTML][HTML] False signals induced by single-cell imputation

TS Andrews, M Hemberg - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Single-cell RNA-seq is a powerful tool for measuring gene expression at the
resolution of individual cells. A challenge in the analysis of this data is the large amount of …

Integrative analysis of single-cell genomics data by coupled nonnegative matrix factorizations

Z Duren, X Chen, M Zamanighomi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
When different types of functional genomics data are generated on single cells from different
samples of cells from the same heterogeneous population, the clustering of cells in the …

Comparison of computational methods for imputing single-cell RNA-sequencing data

L Zhang, S Zhang - IEEE/ACM transactions on computational …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a recent breakthrough technology, which paves
the way for measuring RNA levels at single cell resolution to study precise biological …

The Human Cell Atlas: technical approaches and challenges

CC Hon, JW Shin, P Carninci… - Briefings in functional …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Human Cell Atlas is a large, international consortium that aims to identify and
describe every cell type in the human body. The comprehensive cellular maps that arise …

Discovery of rare cells from voluminous single cell expression data

A Jindal, P Gupta, Jayadeva, D Sengupta - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Single cell messenger RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides a window into transcriptional
landscapes in complex tissues. The recent introduction of droplet based transcriptomics …

Reconstruction of complex single-cell trajectories using CellRouter

E Lummertz da Rocha, RG Rowe, V Lundin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A better understanding of the cell-fate transitions that occur in complex cellular ecosystems
in normal development and disease could inform cell engineering efforts and lead to …