SCell: integrated analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data

Bioinformatics. 2016 Jul 15;32(14):2219-20. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw201. Epub 2016 Apr 19.

Abstract

Analysis of the composition of heterogeneous tissue has been greatly enabled by recent developments in single-cell transcriptomics. We present SCell, an integrated software tool for quality filtering, normalization, feature selection, iterative dimensionality reduction, clustering and the estimation of gene-expression gradients from large ensembles of single-cell RNA-seq datasets. SCell is open source, and implemented with an intuitive graphical interface. Scripts and protocols for the high-throughput pre-processing of large ensembles of single-cell, RNA-seq datasets are provided as an additional resource.

Availability and implementation: Binary executables for Windows, MacOS and Linux are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/scell, source code and pre-processing scripts are available from https://github.com/diazlab/SCellSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Contact: [email protected].

MeSH terms

  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • RNA
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA*
  • Single-Cell Analysis*
  • Software*

Substances

  • RNA