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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2021

Computational methods for the integrative analysis of single-cell data.

Mattia Forcato, Oriana Romano, Silvio Bicciato

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Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mattia ForcatoMolecular Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research interests include the development and application of bioinformatics methods for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data.
Oriana RomanoMolecular Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research activities are mainly focused on the integrative analysis of transcriptional and epigenomic bulk and single-cell data.
Silvio BicciatoIndustrial Bioengineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research activity is the development and application of computational approaches for the analysis of multi -omics data.
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in single-cell technologies are providing exciting opportunities for dissecting tissue heterogeneity and investigating cell identity, fate and function. This is a pristine, exploding field that is flooding biologists with a new wave of data, each with its own specificities in terms of complexity and information content. The integrative analysis of genomic data, collected at different molecular layers from diverse cell populations, holds promise to address the full-scale complexity of biological systems. However, the combination of different single-cell genomic signals is computationally challenging, as these data are intrinsically heterogeneous for experimental, technical and biological reasons. Here, we describe the computational methods for the integrative analysis of single-cell genomic data, with a focus on the integration of single-cell RNA sequencing datasets and on the joint analysis of multimodal signals from individual cells.

Indexed as

AnimalsComputational BiologyHumansRNA-SeqSingle-Cell Analysisbioinformaticsdata integrationsingle cell genomics

Identifiers

PMID32363378
PMCPMC7820847
OpenAlexW3022072135

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