Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Uncovering transcriptional dark matter via gene annotation independent single-cell RNA sequencing analysis

  • Michael F. Z. Wang,
  • Madhav Mantri,
  • Shao-Pei Chou,
  • Gaetano J. Scuderi,
  • David W. McKellar,
  • Jonathan T. Butcher,
  • Charles G. Danko,
  • Iwijn De Vlaminck

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22496-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Conventional single-cell RNA sequencing analysis rely on genome annotations that may be incomplete or inaccurate especially for understudied organisms. Here the authors present a bioinformatic tool that leverages single-cell data to uncover biologically relevant transcripts beyond the best available genome annotation.