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 …

Single-cell RNA-seq technologies and related computational data analysis

G Chen, B Ning, T Shi - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies allow the dissection of gene
expression at single-cell resolution, which greatly revolutionizes transcriptomic studies. A …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia

NG Skene, J Bryois, TE Bakken, G Breen, JJ Crowley… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
With few exceptions, the marked advances in knowledge about the genetic basis of
schizophrenia have not converged on findings that can be confidently used for precise …

Data analysis guidelines for single-cell RNA-seq in biomedical studies and clinical applications

M Su, T Pan, QZ Chen, WW Zhou, Y Gong, G Xu… - Military Medical …, 2022 - Springer
The application of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) in biomedical research has
advanced our understanding of the pathogenesis of disease and provided valuable insights …

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 …

Evaluating methods of inferring gene regulatory networks highlights their lack of performance for single cell gene expression data

S Chen, JC Mar - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background A fundamental fact in biology states that genes do not operate in isolation, and
yet, methods that infer regulatory networks for single cell gene expression data have been …

DEsingle for detecting three types of differential expression in single-cell RNA-seq data

Z Miao, K Deng, X Wang, X Zhang - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The excessive amount of zeros in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data includes 'real'zeros
due to the on-off nature of gene transcription in single cells and 'dropout'zeros due to …