RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Cepo uncovers cell identity through differential stability JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2021.01.10.426138 DO 10.1101/2021.01.10.426138 A1 Hani Jieun Kim A1 Kevin Wang A1 Carissa Chen A1 Yingxin Lin A1 Patrick PL Tam A1 David M Lin A1 Jean YH Yang A1 Pengyi Yang YR 2021 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/11/2021.01.10.426138.abstract AB We present Cepo, a method to generate cell-type-specific gene statistics of differentially stable genes from single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data to define cell identity. Cepo outperforms current methods in assigning cell identity and enhances several cell identification applications such as cell-type characterisation, spatial mapping of single cells, and lineage inference of single cells.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.