Single-cell transcriptomics enters the age of mass production

Jan Philipp Junker; Alexander van Oudenaarden

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2015.05.019

Single-cell transcriptomics enters the age of mass production

Mol Cell. 2015 May 21;58(4):563-4. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.05.019.

Authors

Jan Philipp Junker¹, Alexander van Oudenaarden²

Affiliations

¹ Hubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, the Netherlands; Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, 13092 Berlin-Buch, Germany. Electronic address: j.junker@hubrecht.eu.
² Hubrecht Institute-KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: a.vanoudenaarden@hubrecht.eu.

PMID: 26000840
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.05.019

Abstract

Two publications in the current issue of Cell introduce novel methods for high-throughput single-cell transcriptomics by using droplet microfluidics and sophisticated barcoding schemes for transcriptional profiling of thousands of individual cells.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Embryonic Stem Cells / cytology*
Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
Genome-Wide Association Study*
Microfluidic Analytical Techniques*
Retina / cytology*
Single-Cell Analysis / methods*