Single-cell sequencing-based technologies will revolutionize whole-organism science
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An Ultrahigh-throughput Microfluidic Platform for Single-cell Genome Sequencing
Published on: May 23, 2018
Ehud Shapiro1, Tamir Biezuner, Sten Linnarsson
11] Department of Computer Science and Applied Math, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. [2] Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Abstract:
The unabated progress in next-generation sequencing technologies is fostering a wave of new genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and proteomics technologies. These sequencing-based technologies are increasingly being targeted to individual cells, which will allow many new and longstanding questions to be addressed. For example, single-cell genomics will help to uncover cell lineage relationships; single-cell transcriptomics will supplant the coarse notion of marker-based cell types; and single-cell epigenomics and proteomics will allow the functional states of individual cells to be analysed. These technologies will become integrated within a decade or so, enabling high-throughput, multi-dimensional analyses of individual cells that will produce detailed knowledge of the cell lineage trees of higher organisms, including humans. Such studies will have important implications for both basic biological research and medicine.
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