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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

CancerSCEM: a database of single-cell expression map across various human cancers.

Jingyao Zeng, Yadong Zhang, Yunfei Shang, Jialin Mai, Shuo Shi, Mingming Lu, Congfan Bu, Zhewen Zhang, Zaichao Zhang, Yang Li and 2 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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71citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jingyao ZengNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7364-9677
Yadong ZhangNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Yunfei ShangNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Jialin MaiNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Shuo ShiNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Mingming LuNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Congfan BuNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Zhewen ZhangNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Zaichao ZhangDepartment of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.
Yang LiBeijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing key Laboratory of Intraocular Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China.
Zhenglin DuNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2147-3475
Jingfa XiaoNational Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2835-4340
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNWestern University · CABeijing Tongren Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the proliferating studies of human cancers by single-cell RNA sequencing technique (scRNA-seq), cellular heterogeneity, immune landscape and pathogenesis within diverse cancers have been uncovered successively. The exponential explosion of massive cancer scRNA-seq datasets in the past decade are calling for a burning demand to be integrated and processed for essential investigations in tumor microenvironment of various cancer types. To fill this gap, we developed a database of Cancer Single-cell Expression Map (CancerSCEM, https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/cancerscem), particularly focusing on a variety of human cancers. To date, CancerSCE version 1.0 consists of 208 cancer samples across 28 studies and 20 human cancer types. A series of uniformly and multiscale analyses for each sample were performed, including accurate cell type annotation, functional gene expressions, cell interaction network, survival analysis and etc. Plus, we visualized CancerSCEM as a user-friendly web interface for users to browse, search, online analyze and download all the metadata as well as analytical results. More importantly and unprecedentedly, the newly-constructed comprehensive online analyzing platform in CancerSCEM integrates seven analyze functions, where investigators can interactively perform cancer scRNA-seq analyses. In all, CancerSCEM paves an informative and practical way to facilitate human cancer studies, and also provides insights into clinical therapy assessments.

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Databases, GeneticSoftwareGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasmsRNA-SeqSingle-Cell AnalysisTumor Microenvironment

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