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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2020

SCSsim: an integrated tool for simulating single-cell genome sequencing data.

Zhenhua Yu, Fang Du, Xuehong Sun, Ao Li

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhenhua YuDepartment of Software Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China.
Fang DuDepartment of Software Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China.
Xuehong SunDepartment of Software Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China.
Ao LiDepartment of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China.
Ningxia University · CNUniversity of Science and Technology of China · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAllele dropout (ADO) and unbalanced amplification of alleles are main technical issues of single-cell sequencing (SCS), and effectively emulating these issues is necessary for reliably benchmarking SCS-based bioinformatics tools. Unfortunately, currently available sequencing simulators are free of whole-genome amplification involved in SCS technique and therefore not suited for generating SCS datasets. We develop a new software package (SCSsim) that can efficiently simulate SCS datasets in a parallel fashion with minimal user intervention. SCSsim first constructs the genome sequence of single cell by mimicking a complement of genomic variations under user-controlled manner, and then amplifies the genome according to MALBAC technique and finally yields sequencing reads from the amplified products based on inferred sequencing profiles. Comprehensive evaluation in simulating different ADO rates, variation detection efficiency and genome coverage demonstrates that SCSsim is a very useful tool in mimicking single-cell sequencing data with high efficiency. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: SCSsim is freely available at https://github.com/qasimyu/scssim. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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GenomicsSoftwareChromosome MappingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNAWhole Genome Sequencing

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PMID31584615
PMCPMC7703785
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