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ArticleNature biotechnology2021

Modular, efficient and constant-memory single-cell RNA-seq preprocessing.

Páll Melsted, A Sina Booeshaghi, Lauren Liu, Fan Gao, Lambda Lu, Kyung Hoi Joseph Min, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Kristján Eldjárn Hjörleifsson, Jase Gehring, Lior Pachter

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 251 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Páll Melsted *Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
A Sina Booeshaghi *Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Lauren LiuDepartment of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Fan GaoDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Lambda LuDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Kyung Hoi Joseph MinDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-4017
Eduardo da Veiga BeltrameDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Kristján Eldjárn HjörleifssonDepartment of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Jase GehringDepartment of Genome Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Lior PachterDepartment of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. lpachter@caltech.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9164-6231

Funding

Generation of novel cell type specific mouse genetic toolsU19MH114830 · NIMH · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI NGAI, JOHN J. · 2017 to 2021
$64.7M
NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH114830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a workflow for preprocessing of single-cell RNA-sequencing data that balances efficiency and accuracy. Our workflow is based on the kallisto and bustools programs, and is near optimal in speed with a constant memory requirement providing scalability for arbitrarily large datasets. The workflow is modular, and we demonstrate its flexibility by showing how it can be used for RNA velocity analyses.

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Sequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisBase SequenceHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSoftware

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