Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

An accurate and robust imputation method scImpute for single-cell RNA-seq data

  • Wei Vivian Li,
  • Jingyi Jessica Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03405-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Despite being widely performed in exploring cell heterogeneity and gene expression stochasticity, single cell RNA-seq analysis is complicated by excess zero counts (dropouts). Here, Li and Li develop scImpute for statistical imputation of dropouts in scRNA-seq data.