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 …

On the dependency of cellular protein levels on mRNA abundance

Y Liu, A Beyer, R Aebersold - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The question of how genomic information is expressed to determine phenotypes is of central
importance for basic and translational life science research and has been studied by …

Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes

Y Zhang, V Bharathi, T Dokoshi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
It is unclear how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection
leads to the strong but ineffective inflammatory response that characterizes severe …

RNA velocity unraveled

G Gorin, M Fang, T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We perform a thorough analysis of RNA velocity methods, with a view towards
understanding the suitability of the various assumptions underlying popular …

MAST: a flexible statistical framework for assessing transcriptional changes and characterizing heterogeneity in single-cell RNA sequencing data

G Finak, A McDavid, M Yajima, J Deng, V Gersuk… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals gene expression heterogeneity but suffers from
stochastic dropout and characteristic bimodal expression distributions in which expression is …

Enhancer control of transcriptional bursting

T Fukaya, B Lim, M Levine - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Transcription is episodic, consisting of a series of discontinuous bursts. Using live-imaging
methods and quantitative analysis, we examine transcriptional bursting in living Drosophila …

Causes and consequences of hematopoietic stem cell heterogeneity

S Haas, A Trumpp, MD Milsom - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Blood and immune cells derive from multipotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
Classically, stem and progenitor populations have been considered discrete homogeneous …

Comparative analysis of droplet-based ultra-high-throughput single-cell RNA-seq systems

X Zhang, T Li, F Liu, Y Chen, J Yao, Z Li, Y Huang… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Since its establishment in 2009, single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has been a major
driver behind progress in biomedical research. In developmental biology and stem cell …

Single-cell RNA-seq: advances and future challenges

AE Saliba, AJ Westermann, SA Gorski… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypically identical cells can dramatically vary with respect to behavior during their
lifespan and this variation is reflected in their molecular composition such as the …

Spatially resolved, highly multiplexed RNA profiling in single cells

KH Chen, AN Boettiger, JR Moffitt, S Wang, X Zhuang - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The copy number and intracellular localization of RNA are important
regulators of gene expression. Measurement of these properties at the transcriptome scale …