Demystifying “drop-outs” in single-cell UMI data

Abstract Many existing pipelines for scRNA-seq data apply pre-processing steps such as normalization or imputation to account for excessive zeros or “drop-outs." Here, we extensively analyze diverse UMI data sets to show that clustering should be the foremost step of the workflow. We observe th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tae Hyun Kim, Xiang Zhou, Mengjie Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:Genome Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02096-y