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ArticleNature communications2018

Unsupervised clustering and epigenetic classification of single cells.

Mahdi Zamanighomi, Zhixiang Lin, Timothy Daley, Xi Chen, Zhana Duren, Alicia Schep, William J Greenleaf, Wing Hung Wong

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mahdi ZamanighomiDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Zhixiang LinDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Timothy DaleyDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Xi ChenDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Zhana DurenDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Alicia SchepDepartment of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
William J GreenleafDepartment of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1409-3095
Wing Hung WongDepartment of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. whwong@stanford.edu.

Funding

Special EquipmentP50HG007735 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2014 to 2018
$15.2M
Multivariate statistical methods, flow cytometry, and network modeling.R01GM109836 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H. · 2014 to 2017
$1.2M
Statistical and computational analysis in whole genome sequencing studies.R01HG007834 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H. · 2014 to 2016
$892k
NHGRI NIH HHS P50 HG007735NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG007834NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109836
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing epigenetic heterogeneity at the cellular level is a critical problem in the modern genomics era. Assays such as single cell ATAC-seq (scATAC-seq) offer an opportunity to interrogate cellular level epigenetic heterogeneity through patterns of variability in open chromatin. However, these assays exhibit technical variability that complicates clear classification and cell type identification in heterogeneous populations. We present scABC, an R package for the unsupervised clustering of single-cell epigenetic data, to classify scATAC-seq data and discover regions of open chromatin specific to cell identity.

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Models, StatisticalAlgorithmsAnimalsCell LineChromatinCluster AnalysisEpigenomicsMiceMouse Embryonic Stem CellsSequence Analysis, DNASingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareChromatin

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PMID29925875
PMCPMC6010417

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