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XB-ART-51541
Cell 2015 May 21;1615:1187-201.
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Droplet barcoding for single-cell transcriptomics applied to embryonic stem cells.

Klein AM , Mazutis L , Akartuna I , Tallapragada N , Veres A , Li V , Peshkin L , Weitz DA , Kirschner MW .


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It has long been the dream of biologists to map gene expression at the single-cell level. With such data one might track heterogeneous cell sub-populations, and infer regulatory relationships between genes and pathways. Recently, RNA sequencing has achieved single-cell resolution. What is limiting is an effective way to routinely isolate and process large numbers of individual cells for quantitative in-depth sequencing. We have developed a high-throughput droplet-microfluidic approach for barcoding the RNA from thousands of individual cells for subsequent analysis by next-generation sequencing. The method shows a surprisingly low noise profile and is readily adaptable to other sequencing-based assays. We analyzed mouse embryonic stem cells, revealing in detail the population structure and the heterogeneous onset of differentiation after leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) withdrawal. The reproducibility of these high-throughput single-cell data allowed us to deconstruct cell populations and infer gene expression relationships. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: kcnip3 lif

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