CellCycleTRACER accounts for cell cycle and volume in mass cytometry data.

Rapsomaniki, Maria Anna; Lun, Xiao-Kang; Woerner, Stefan; Laumanns, Marco; Bodenmiller, Bernd; Martínez, María Rodríguez · Nat Commun · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Recent studies have shown that cell cycle and cell volume are confounding factors when studying biological phenomena in single cells. Here we present a combined experimental and computational method, CellCycleTRACER, to account for these factors in mass cytometry data. CellCycleTRACER is applied to mass cytometry data collected on three different cell types during a TNFα stimulation time-course. CellCycleTRACER reveals signaling relationships and cell heterogeneity that were otherwise masked.

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