Every cell is special: genome-wide studies add a new dimension to single-cell biology

Jan Philipp Junker; Alexander van Oudenaarden

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.010

Every cell is special: genome-wide studies add a new dimension to single-cell biology

Cell. 2014 Mar 27;157(1):8-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.010.

Authors

Jan Philipp Junker¹, Alexander van Oudenaarden²

Affiliations

¹ Hubrecht Institute, KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: j.junker@hubrecht.eu.
² Hubrecht Institute, KNAW and University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CT Utrecht, the Netherlands.

PMID: 24679522
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.010

Abstract

Single-cell analyses have provided invaluable insights into studying heterogenity, signaling, and stochastic gene expression. Recent technological advances now open the door to genome-wide single-cell studies.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Cell Physiological Phenomena
Genome-Wide Association Study
Humans
Sequence Analysis, RNA
Single-Cell Analysis*