Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Flexible experimental designs for valid single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments allowing batch effects correction

  • Fangda Song,
  • Ga Ming Angus Chan,
  • Yingying Wei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16905-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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It is not clear which designs, other than completely randomized ones, are valid for scRNA-seq experiments so that batch effects can be adjusted. Here the authors show that under flexible reference panel and chain-type designs, biological variability can also be separated from batch effects, at least by BUSseq.