A reference cell tree will serve science better than a reference cell atlas

S Domcke, J Shendure - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Single-cell biology is facing a crisis of sorts. Vast numbers of single-cell molecular profiles
are being generated, clustered and annotated. However, this is overwhelmingly ad hoc, and …

Plant cell identity in the era of single-cell transcriptomics

KH Ryu, Y Zhu, J Schiefelbein - Annual Review of Genetics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput single-cell transcriptomic approaches have revolutionized our view of gene
expression at the level of individual cells, providing new insights into their heterogeneity …

A statistical method for quantifying progenitor cells reveals incipient cell fate commitments

S Deng, H Gong, D Zhang, M Zhang, X He - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Quantifying the number of progenitor cells that found an organ, tissue or cell population is of
fundamental importance for understanding the development and homeostasis of a …

Phylogenetic comparative analysis of single-cell transcriptomes reveals constrained accumulation of gene expression heterogeneity during clonal expansion

F Chen, Z Li, X Zhang, P Wu, W Yang… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the same way that a phylogeny summarizes the evolutionary history of species, a cell
lineage tree describes the process of clonal expansion, in which gene expression …

CellO: Comprehensive and hierarchical cell type classification of human cells with the Cell Ontology

MN Bernstein, Z Ma, M Gleicher, CN Dewey - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Cell type annotation is a fundamental task in the analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing
data. In this work, we present CellO, a machine learning-based tool for annotating human …

Expression Partitioning of Duplicate Genes at Single Cell Resolution in Arabidopsis Roots

JE Coate, AD Farmer, JW Schiefelbein… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gene duplication is a key evolutionary phenomenon, prevalent in all organisms but
particularly so in plants, where whole genome duplication (WGD; polyploidy) is a major force …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing cell lineage trees with genomic barcoding: approaches and applications

Z Li, W Yang, P Wu, Y Shan, X Zhang, F Chen… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In multicellular organisms, developmental history of cell divisions and functional annotation
of terminal cells can be organized into a cell lineage tree (CLT). The reconstruction of the …

Cell tracking for organoids: lessons from developmental biology

MA Betjes, X Zheng, RNU Kok, JS Van Zon… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Organoids have emerged as powerful model systems to study organ development and
regeneration at the cellular level. Recently developed microscopy techniques that track …

A topological look into the evolution of developmental programs

S Mani, T Tlusty - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Rapid advance of experimental techniques provides an unprecedented in-depth view into
complex developmental processes. Still, little is known on how the complexity of multicellular …

The DNA binding protein BCL6 regulates NFκB-controlled endothelial inflammatory gene expression

AF Acevedo, JJ Mack, NM Valenzuela - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Background NFκB drives acute vascular inflammation by activating gene expression
programs in endothelial cells to promote leukocyte recruitment. Numerous negative …