Normalizing and denoising protein expression data from droplet-based single cell profiling
Mulè M, Martins A, Tsang J. Normalizing and denoising protein expression data from droplet-based single cell profiling. Nature Communications 2022, 13: 2099. PMID: 35440536, PMCID: PMC9018908, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29356-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProtein expression dataSingle-cell profiling methodsExpression dataSingle-cell profilingOligo-conjugated antibodiesTechnical noiseProtein populationCITE-seqCellular heterogeneityComprehensive dissectionDownstream analysisCell profilingDSBsSingle cellsProtein levelsProtein expressionCell populationsOpen-source R packageProfiling methodProtein countsEmpty dropletsR packageComputational analysisCellsBiological variationBroad immune activation underlies shared set point signatures for vaccine responsiveness in healthy individuals and disease activity in patients with lupus
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Milanez-Almeida P, Martins A, Germain R, Tsang J. Cancer prognosis with shallow tumor RNA sequencing. Nature Medicine 2020, 26: 188-192. PMID: 32042193, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0729-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCancer prognosisTumor RNA-seq dataTumor RNA sequencingPrediction of outcomeTypes of cancerClinical outcomesRNA sequencingAdverse outcomesRelative riskDisease outcomeOutcome predictionTumor RNA-seqPersonalized oncologyTranscriptional signatureCancer1–3Molecular pathwaysOutcomesPrognosisLongitudinal analysisTranscriptional pathwaysCancerA crowdsourcing approach for reusing and meta-analyzing gene expression data
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