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Droplet Barcoding-Based Single Cell Transcriptomics of Adult Mammalian Tissues
Published on: January 10, 2019
Cell type ontologies of the Human Cell Atlas
David Osumi-Sutherland1, Chuan Xu2, Maria Keays2
1EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Abstract:
Massive single-cell profiling efforts have accelerated our discovery of the cellular composition of the human body while at the same time raising the need to formalize this new knowledge. Here, we discuss current efforts to harmonize and integrate different sources of annotations of cell types and states into a reference cell ontology. We illustrate with examples how a unified ontology can consolidate and advance our understanding of cell types across scientific communities and biological domains.
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