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ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2019

Beyond bulk: a review of single cell transcriptomics methodologies and applications.

Ashwinikumar Kulkarni, Ashley G Anderson, Devin P Merullo, Genevieve Konopka

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Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 199 papers.

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199citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

199 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ashwinikumar KulkarniDepartment of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Ashley G AndersonDepartment of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Devin P MerulloDepartment of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Genevieve KonopkaDepartment of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. Electronic address: genevieve.konopka@utsouthwestern.edu.

Funding

Using deep brain stimulation of the parietal cortex to investigate the electrophysiology of human episodic memoryR01NS107357 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Bradley C Lega · 2018 to 2026
$3.6M
Human Specific Brain DNA Methylation and Neuropsychiatric DiseasesR01MH103517 · NIMH · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI JORDAN, IRVING KING, PREUSS, TODD M · 2015 to 2019
$3.5M
Basic Science Training Program in the Neurobiology of Mental IllnessT32MH076690 · NIMH · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TAMMINGA, CAROL A · 2007 to 2017
$2.3M
The role of Foxp1-regulated signaling pathways in brain development and behaviorR01MH102603 · NIMH · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI KONOPKA, GENEVIEVE · 2015 to 2019
$2.2M
Functional dissection of mammalian vocal communicationR01DC014702 · NIDCD · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI KONOPKA, GENEVIEVE · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
Identification of human genomic signatures of episodic memoryR21NS106447 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI KONOPKA, GENEVIEVE, LEGA, BRADLEY C · 2018 to 2019
$446k
Genes and Behavior: Reversible Knockdown of FoxP2 in Vocal LearningR21DC016340 · NIDCD · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI KONOPKA, GENEVIEVE, ROBERTS, TODD F · 2017 to 2017
$324k
Cell-type specific transcriptomes associated with vocal learningF32NS112557 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MERULLO, DEVIN · 2019 to 2021
$153k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014702NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC016340NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH102603NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH103517NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH076690NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS112557NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107357NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS106447
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a promising approach to study the transcriptomes of individual cells in the brain and the central nervous system (CNS). This technology acts as a bridge between neuroscience, computational biology, and systems biology, enabling an unbiased and novel understanding of the cellular composition of the brain and CNS. Gene expression at the single cell resolution is often noisy, sparse, and high-dimensional, creating challenges for computational analysis of such data. In this review, we overview fundamental sample preparation and data analysis processes of scRNA-seq and provide a comparative perspective for analyzing and visualizing these data.

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Computational BiologyTranscriptomeBase SequenceSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell Analysis

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PMID30978643
PMCPMC6710112

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