Abstract
Single-cell RNAseq data can be generated using various technologies, spanning from isolation of cells by FACS sorting or droplet sequencing, to the use of frozen tissue sections retaining spatial information of cells in their morphological context. The analysis of single cell RNAseq data is mainly focused on the identification of cell subpopulations characterized by specific gene markers that can be used to purify the population of interest for further biological studies. This chapter describes the steps required for dataset clustering and markers detection using a droplet dataset and a spatial transcriptomics dataset.
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Alessandrì, L., Cordero, F., Beccuti, M., Arigoni, M., Calogero, R.A. (2021). Computational Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data. In: Picardi, E. (eds) RNA Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2284. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1307-8_16
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