Interactive analysis and assessment of single-cell copy-number variations.

Garvin, Tyler; Aboukhalil, Robert; Kendall, Jude; Baslan, Timour; Atwal, Gurinder S; Hicks, James; Wigler, Michael; Schatz, Michael C · Nat Methods · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We present Ginkgo (http://qb.cshl.edu/ginkgo), a user-friendly, open-source web platform for the analysis of single-cell copy-number variations (CNVs). Ginkgo automatically constructs copy-number profiles of cells from mapped reads and constructs phylogenetic trees of related cells. We validated Ginkgo by reproducing the results of five major studies. After comparing three commonly used single-cell amplification techniques, we concluded that degenerate oligonucleotide-primed PCR is the most consistent for CNV analysis.

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