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A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Investigating Molecular Evolution and Gene Expression using RNA-seq
Published on: May 28, 2021
Biological process activity transformation of single cell gene expression for cross-species alignment
Hongxu Ding1, Andrew Blair2, Ying Yang3
1Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA. hding16@ucsc.edu.
Abstract:
The maintenance and transition of cellular states are controlled by biological processes. Here we present a gene set-based transformation of single cell RNA-Seq data into biological process activities that provides a robust description of cellular states. Moreover, as these activities represent species-independent descriptors, they facilitate the alignment of single cell states across different organisms.
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