Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during the maternal-to-zygotic transition

MA Eckersley-Maslin, C Alda-Catalinas… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2018 - nature.com
A remarkable epigenetic remodelling process occurs shortly after fertilization, which restores
totipotency to the zygote. This involves global DNA demethylation, chromatin remodelling …

Single-cell RNA sequencing: technical advancements and biological applications

E Hedlund, Q Deng - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Cells are the basic building blocks of organisms and each cell is unique. Single-cell RNA
sequencing has emerged as an indispensable tool to dissect the cellular heterogeneity and …

A test metric for assessing single-cell RNA-seq batch correction

M Büttner, Z Miao, FA Wolf, SA Teichmann, FJ Theis - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics is a versatile tool for exploring heterogeneous cell populations,
but as with all genomics experiments, batch effects can hamper data integration and …

SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data

VY Kiselev, K Kirschner, MT Schaub, T Andrews… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-seq enables the quantitative characterization of cell types based on global
transcriptome profiles. We present single-cell consensus clustering (SC3), a user-friendly …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of low quality cells from single-cell RNA-seq data

T Ilicic, JK Kim, AA Kolodziejczyk, FO Bagger… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has broad applications across biomedical
research. One of the key challenges is to ensure that only single, live cells are included in …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneity in Oct4 and Sox2 targets biases cell fate in 4-cell mouse embryos

M Goolam, A Scialdone, SJL Graham, IC Macaulay… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The major and essential objective of pre-implantation development is to establish embryonic
and extra-embryonic cell fates. To address when and how this fundamental process is …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying cell populations with scRNASeq

TS Andrews, M Hemberg - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Single-cell RNASeq (scRNASeq) has emerged as a powerful method for quantifying the
transcriptome of individual cells. However, the data from scRNASeq experiments is often …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Deconstructing and reconstructing the mouse and human early embryo

MN Shahbazi, M Zernicka-Goetz - Nature cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of form and function during mammalian embryogenesis is a complex
process that involves multiple regulatory levels. The foundations of the body plan are laid …

VASC: dimension reduction and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data by deep variational autoencoder

D Wang, J Gu - Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful technique to analyze the
transcriptomic heterogeneities at the single cell level. It is an important step for studying cell …