Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R.

ABSTRACT: Motivation:Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is increasingly used to study gene expression at the level of individual cells. However, preparing raw sequence data for further analysis is not a straightforward process. Biases, artifacts and other sources of unwanted variation are present in the data, requiring substantial time and effort to be spent on pre-processing, quality control (QC) and normalization. Results:We have developed the R/Bioconductor package scater to facilitate rigorous pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of scRNA-seq data. The package provides a convenient, flexible workflow to process raw sequencing reads into a high-quality expression dataset ready for downstream analysis. scater provides a rich suite of plotting tools for single-cell data and a flexible data structure that is compatible with existing tools and can be used as infrastructure for future software development. Availability and Implementation:The open-source code, along with installation instructions, vignettes and case studies, is available through Bioconductor at http://bioconductor.org/packages/scater . Contact:[e-mail]. Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: McCarthy DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5408845 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature