Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

Profiles RNA expression in each of thousands of individual cells separately by attaching a cell or partition barcode to captured cDNA; many workflows additionally add a unique molecular identifier (UMI) to distinguish original RNA molecules.

References

• Tang, F., Barbacioru, C., Wang, Y., et al. "mRNA-Seq." Nature Methods 6, no. 5 (2009): 377–382.