Normalization and noise reduction for single cell RNA-seq experiments.

Ding, Bo; Zheng, Lina; Zhu, Yun; Li, Nan; Jia, Haiyang; Ai, Rizi; Wildberg, Andre; Wang, Wei · Bioinformatics · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A major roadblock towards accurate interpretation of single cell RNA-seq data is large technical noise resulted from small amount of input materials. The existing methods mainly aim to find differentially expressed genes rather than directly de-noise the single cell data. We present here a powerful but simple method to remove technical noise and explicitly compute the true gene expression levels based on spike-in ERCC molecules. The software is implemented by R and the download version is available at http://wanglab.ucsd.edu/star/GRM. wei-wang@ucsd.edu Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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