Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Spearheading future omics analyses using dyngen, a multi-modal simulator of single cells

  • Robrecht Cannoodt,
  • Wouter Saelens,
  • Louise Deconinck,
  • Yvan Saeys

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24152-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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To benchmark single cell bioinformatics tools, data simulators can provide a robust ground truth. Here the authors present dyngen, a multi-modal simulator, and apply it to aligning cell developmental trajectories, cell-specific regulatory network inference and estimation of RNA velocity.