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SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data

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Kiselev, Vladimir Yu, Kirschner, Kristina, Schaub, Michael T, Andrews, Tallulah, Yiu, Andrew, Chandra, Tamir, Natarajan, Kedar N, Reik, Wolf +3 more·2017·Nature Methods

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Single-cell RNA-seq enables the quantitative characterization of cell types based on global transcriptome profiles. We present single-cell consensus clustering (SC3), a user-friendly tool for unsupervised clustering, which achieves high accuracy and robustness by combining multiple clustering solutions through a consensus approach (http://bioconductor.org/packages/SC3). We demonstrate that SC3 is capable of identifying subclones from the transcriptomes of neoplastic cells collected from patients.

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  • SC3 separated microglia into four clusters, whereby 99.8% of 5xFAD XO4+ cells and 99.2% of WT 6 m microglia were entirely contained within Clusters 2 and 3, respectively.

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Kiselev, V. Y., Kirschner, K., Schaub, M. T., Andrews, T., Yiu, A., Chandra, T., Natarajan, K. N., Reik, W., Barahona, M., Green, A. R., & Hemberg, M.
Affiliations
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (GB)
  • University of Namur (BE)
  • Babraham Institute (GB)
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Hemberg, Martin
Venue
Nature Methods
Published
2017-03-27
Volume
14
Issue
5
Pages
483-486
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
OpenAlex
W2598326928
Cited by
1,500
References
14
Citations by year
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FWCI
60.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Methods (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (acceptedVersion)
  • DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion)
  • Apollo
Funders
  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  • Wellcome Trust (104710, 104710/Z/14/Z, 098051)
  • Cancer Research UK (21762)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund
  • Blood Cancer UK (07037)
  • Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N014529/1)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/K010867/1, BBS/E/B/000C0426)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
single-cell RNA sequencing, cell clustering, consensus clustering, unsupervised clustering, cell type annotation, neoplastic cells, Bioconductor package
MeSH terms
Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Humans, Cluster Analysis, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Gene Expression Profiling, Single-Cell Analysis, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Support Vector Machine, Datasets as Topic

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