Data exploration, quality control and testing in single-cell qPCR-based gene expression experiments
Author(s) -
Andrew McDavid,
Greg Finak,
Pratip K. Chattopadyay,
María Domínguez,
Laurie Lamoreaux,
Schmidt Steven,
Mario Roederer,
Raphaël Gottardo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts714
Subject(s) - computer science , expression (computer science) , parametric statistics , computational biology , statistical hypothesis testing , data mining , biology , statistics , mathematics , programming language
Cell populations are never truly homogeneous; individual cells exist in biochemical states that define functional differences between them. New technology based on microfluidic arrays combined with multiplexed quantitative polymerase chain reactions now enables high-throughput single-cell gene expression measurement, allowing assessment of cellular heterogeneity. However, few analytic tools have been developed specifically for the statistical and analytical challenges of single-cell quantitative polymerase chain reactions data.
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