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 …

[HTML][HTML] The triumphs and limitations of computational methods for scRNA-seq

PV Kharchenko - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid progress of protocols for sequencing single-cell transcriptomes over the past
decade has been accompanied by equally impressive advances in the computational …

[HTML][HTML] Orchestrating single-cell analysis with Bioconductor

RA Amezquita, ATL Lun, E Becht, VJ Carey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent technological advancements have enabled the profiling of a large number of
genome-wide features in individual cells. However, single-cell data present unique …

muscat detects subpopulation-specific state transitions from multi-sample multi-condition single-cell transcriptomics data

HL Crowell, C Soneson, PL Germain, D Calini… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become an empowering technology to profile
the transcriptomes of individual cells on a large scale. Early analyses of differential …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] SAVER: gene expression recovery for single-cell RNA sequencing

M Huang, J Wang, E Torre, H Dueck, S Shaffer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) studies, only a small fraction of the transcripts
present in each cell are sequenced. This leads to unreliable quantification of genes with low …

[HTML][HTML] Bias, robustness and scalability in single-cell differential expression analysis

C Soneson, MD Robinson - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Many methods have been used to determine differential gene expression from single-cell
RNA (scRNA)-seq data. We evaluated 36 approaches using experimental and synthetic …

Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R

DJ McCarthy, KR Campbell, ATL Lun, QF Wills - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is increasingly used to study gene
expression at the level of individual cells. However, preparing raw sequence data for further …

A practical solution to pseudoreplication bias in single-cell studies

KD Zimmerman, MA Espeland, CD Langefeld - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Cells from the same individual share common genetic and environmental backgrounds and
are not statistically independent; therefore, they are subsamples or pseudoreplicates. Thus …