Single-cell genome sequencing: current state of the science

C Gawad, W Koh, SR Quake - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The field of single-cell genomics is advancing rapidly and is generating many new insights
into complex biological systems, ranging from the diversity of microbial ecosystems to the …

Microfluidic single‐cell omics analysis

X Xu, J Wang, L Wu, J Guo, Y Song, T Tian, W Wang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The commonly existing cellular heterogeneity plays a critical role in biological processes
such as embryonic development, cell differentiation, and disease progress. Single‐cell …

Massively parallel whole genome amplification for single-cell sequencing using droplet microfluidics

M Hosokawa, Y Nishikawa, M Kogawa, H Takeyama - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Massively parallel single-cell genome sequencing is required to further understand genetic
diversities in complex biological systems. Whole genome amplification (WGA) is the first step …

Single-cell multiomics techniques: from conception to applications

MA Dimitriu, I Lazar-Contes, M Roszkowski… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in methods for single-cell analyses and barcoding strategies have led to
considerable progress in research. The development of multiplexed assays offers the …

Sequencing of nucleic acids via barcoding in discrete entities

AR Abate, JR Haliburton, F Lan… - US Patent 11,111,519, 2021 - Google Patents
Microfluidic methods for barcoding nucleic acid target molecules to be analyzed, eg, via
nucleic acid sequencing techniques, are provided. Also provided are microfluidic, droplet …

Biochemical analysis on microfluidic chips

J Wu, Z He, Q Chen, JM Lin - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Biochemical analysis is crucial in understanding mechanism of life activities and giving
biological insights into life process. With inherent merits in flexible design, microscale of …

Validation of the application of gel beads-based single-cell genome sequencing platform to soil and seawater

Y Nishikawa, M Kogawa, M Hosokawa… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell genomics is applied to environmental samples as a method to solve the
problems of current metagenomics. However, in the fluorescence-activated cell sorting …

Development of droplet microfluidics enabling high-throughput single-cell analysis

N Wen, Z Zhao, B Fan, D Chen, D Men, J Wang… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
This article reviews recent developments in droplet microfluidics enabling high-throughput
single-cell analysis. Five key aspects in this field are included in this review:(1) prototype …

Obtaining high-quality draft genomes from uncultured microbes by cleaning and co-assembly of single-cell amplified genomes

M Kogawa, M Hosokawa, Y Nishikawa, K Mori… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics is a straightforward approach to obtain genomes from uncultured
microbes. However, sequence reads from a single-cell amplified genome (SAG) contain …

Tools for microbial single-cell genomics for obtaining uncultured microbial genomes

M Hosokawa, Y Nishikawa - Biophysical Reviews, 2024 - Springer
The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies has facilitated the acquisition of
large amounts of DNA sequence data at a relatively low cost, leading to numerous …