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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2021

Multi-omics integration in the age of million single-cell data.

Zhen Miao, Benjamin D Humphreys, Andrew P McMahon, Junhyong Kim

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers.

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133citing papers in PubMed
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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

133 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Zhen MiaoDepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-9517
Benjamin D HumphreysDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6420-8703
Andrew P McMahonDepartment of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Junhyong KimDepartment of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. junhyong@sas.upenn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-8246

Funding

Single-cell analysis to promote kidney repairUC2DK126024 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN D., KIM, JUNHYONG · 2020 to 2024
$3.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS UC2 DK126024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An explosion in single-cell technologies has revealed a previously underappreciated heterogeneity of cell types and novel cell-state associations with sex, disease, development and other processes. Starting with transcriptome analyses, single-cell techniques have extended to multi-omics approaches and now enable the simultaneous measurement of data modalities and spatial cellular context. Data are now available for millions of cells, for whole-genome measurements and for multiple modalities. Although analyses of such multimodal datasets have the potential to provide new insights into biological processes that cannot be inferred with a single mode of assay, the integration of very large, complex, multimodal data into biological models and mechanisms represents a considerable challenge. An understanding of the principles of data integration and visualization methods is required to determine what methods are best applied to a particular single-cell dataset. Each class of method has advantages and pitfalls in terms of its ability to achieve various biological goals, including cell-type classification, regulatory network modelling and biological process inference. In choosing a data integration strategy, consideration must be given to whether the multi-omics data are matched (that is, measured on the same cell) or unmatched (that is, measured on different cells) and, more importantly, the overall modelling and visualization goals of the integrated analysis.

Indexed as

GenomicsSingle-Cell AnalysisComputational BiologyData AnalysisData VisualizationEpigenomicsGene Expression ProfilingHumansProteomics

Identifiers

PMID34417589
PMCPMC9191639

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