Microarray and bulk RNA-seq data measure. Background knowledge Goal of this paper Methods behind DESCEND Results Model evaluation Case studies Effect of cell size on differential non-zero mean and fraction analysis DESCEND improves accuracy of cell type identification, by selecting better highly variable genes Take-home messages When all across-cell differences are accounted for, Poisson distribution is sufficient to capture technical noise in UMI-based scRNA-seq counts.

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Yuqing

PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics

Boston & SF Bay Area