JingleBells: A Repository of Immune-Related Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Datasets.
J Immunol
; 198(9): 3375-3379, 2017 05 01.
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ABSTRACT
Recent advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology increase the understanding of immune differentiation and activation processes, as well as the heterogeneity of immune cell types. Although the number of available immune-related scRNA-seq datasets increases rapidly, their large size and various formats render them hard for the wider immunology community to use, and read-level data are practically inaccessible to the non-computational immunologist. To facilitate datasets reuse, we created the JingleBells repository for immune-related scRNA-seq datasets ready for analysis and visualization of reads at the single-cell level (http//jinglebells.bgu.ac.il/). To this end, we collected the raw data of publicly available immune-related scRNA-seq datasets, aligned the reads to the relevant genome, and saved aligned reads in a uniform format, annotated for cell of origin. We also added scripts and a step-by-step tutorial for visualizing each dataset at the single-cell level, through the commonly used Integrated Genome Viewer (www.broadinstitute.org/igv/). The uniform scRNA-seq format used in JingleBells can facilitate reuse of scRNA-seq data by computational biologists. It also enables immunologists who are interested in a specific gene to visualize the reads aligned to this gene to estimate cell-specific preferences for splicing, mutation load, or alleles. Thus JingleBells is a resource that will extend the usefulness of scRNA-seq datasets outside the programming aficionado realm.
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Programas Informáticos
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ARN
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Análisis de Secuencia de ARN
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Animals
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Humans
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2017
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