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 …

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 …

A human pluripotent stem cell-based platform to study SARS-CoV-2 tropism and model virus infection in human cells and organoids

L Yang, Y Han, BE Nilsson-Payant, V Gupta, P Wang… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need for
physiological models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection using human disease-relevant cells …

Bifidobacterium bifidum strains synergize with immune checkpoint inhibitors to reduce tumour burden in mice

SH Lee, SY Cho, Y Yoon, C Park, J Sohn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gut microbiome can influence the development of tumours and the efficacy of cancer
therapeutics,,,–; however, the multi-omics characteristics of antitumour bacterial strains have …

Genetic compensation triggered by mutant mRNA degradation

MA El-Brolosy, Z Kontarakis, A Rossi, C Kuenne… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic robustness, or the ability of an organism to maintain fitness in the presence of
harmful mutations, can be achieved via protein feedback loops. Previous work has …

Pluripotent stem cell-derived epithelium misidentified as brain microvascular endothelium requires ETS factors to acquire vascular fate

TM Lu, S Houghton, T Magdeldin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Cells derived from pluripotent sources in vitro must resemble those found in vivo as closely
as possible at both transcriptional and functional levels in order to be a useful tool for …

Cellular senescence drives age-dependent hepatic steatosis

M Ogrodnik, S Miwa, T Tchkonia, D Tiniakos… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increases with age. Cellular
senescence refers to a state of irreversible cell-cycle arrest combined with the secretion of …

UMI-tools: modeling sequencing errors in Unique Molecular Identifiers to improve quantification accuracy

T Smith, A Heger, I Sudbery - Genome research, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs) are random oligonucleotide barcodes that are
increasingly used in high-throughput sequencing experiments. Through a UMI, identical …

AdapterRemoval v2: rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging

M Schubert, S Lindgreen, L Orlando - BMC research notes, 2016 - Springer
Background As high-throughput sequencing platforms produce longer and longer reads,
sequences generated from short inserts, such as those obtained from fossil and degraded …

DIANA-LncBase v3: indexing experimentally supported miRNA targets on non-coding transcripts

D Karagkouni, MD Paraskevopoulou… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract DIANA-LncBase v3. 0 (www. microrna. gr/LncBase) is a reference repository with
experimentally supported miRNA targets on non-coding transcripts. Its third version provides …