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ReviewCells2023

A Review of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Annotation, Integration, and Cell-Cell Communication.

Changde Cheng, Wenan Chen, Hongjian Jin, Xiang Chen

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Review in Cells, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 146 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
146citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
26.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

146 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 174 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Changde ChengDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Wenan ChenCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Hongjian JinCenter for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
Xiang ChenDepartment of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2499-8261
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Shondra Michelle Miller · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
EXPLORE AND TARGET THE EPIGENETIC VULNERABILITY OF PAX3-FOXO1-DRIVEN RHABDOMYOSARCOMAR01CA266600 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Xiang Chen, Jun Yang · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
The Role of Immature Tumor Subpopulations In Pediatric RhabdomyosarcomaR01CA262790 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Xiang Chen · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NCI NIH HHS R01 CA262790NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266600NIH HHS P30CA021765-41S3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating cellular biology at an unprecedented resolution, enabling the characterization of cellular heterogeneity, identification of rare but significant cell types, and exploration of cell-cell communications and interactions. Its broad applications span both basic and clinical research domains. In this comprehensive review, we survey the current landscape of scRNA-seq analysis methods and tools, focusing on count modeling, cell-type annotation, data integration, including spatial transcriptomics, and the inference of cell-cell communication. We review the challenges encountered in scRNA-seq analysis, including issues of sparsity or low expression, reliability of cell annotation, and assumptions in data integration, and discuss the potential impact of suboptimal clustering and differential expression analysis tools on downstream analyses, particularly in identifying cell subpopulations. Finally, we discuss recent advancements and future directions for enhancing scRNA-seq analysis. Specifically, we highlight the development of novel tools for annotating single-cell data, integrating and interpreting multimodal datasets covering transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics, and inferring cellular communication networks. By elucidating the latest progress and innovation, we provide a comprehensive overview of the rapidly advancing field of scRNA-seq analysis.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisCluster AnalysisEpigenomicsReproducibility of Resultscell–cell communicationcell-type annotationscRNA-seq analysis methodsingle-cell data integration

Identifiers

PMID37566049
PMCPMC10417635
OpenAlexW4385421874

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