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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2016

Single-cell genome sequencing: current state of the science.

Charles Gawad, Winston Koh, Stephen R Quake

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 688 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

688 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Charles GawadDepartments of Oncology and Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.
Winston KohDepartments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94304, USA.
Stephen R QuakeDepartments of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94304, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 genomics of human cancer. In this Review, we provide an overview of the current state of the field of single-cell genome sequencing. First, we focus on the technical challenges of making measurements that start from a single molecule of DNA, and then explore how some of these recent methodological advancements have enabled the discovery of unexpected new biology. Areas highlighted include the application of single-cell genomics to interrogate microbial dark matter and to evaluate the pathogenic roles of genetic mosaicism in multicellular organisms, with a focus on cancer. We then attempt to predict advances we expect to see in the next few years.

Indexed as

GenomicsBacteriaFungiGenomeHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMosaicismNeoplasmsPolymerase Chain ReactionSequence Analysis, DNASingle-Cell Analysis

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PMID26806412

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