Trends in Biotechnology
Volume 34, Issue 8, August 2016, Pages 605-608
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Multi-Omics of Single Cells: Strategies and Applications

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Most genome-wide assays provide averages across large numbers of cells, but recent technological advances promise to overcome this limitation. Pioneering single-cell assays are now available for genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome profiling. Here, we describe how these different dimensions can be combined into multi-omics assays that provide comprehensive profiles of the same cell.

Keywords

single-cell analysis
combined genome/epigenome/transcriptome/proteome/metabolome mapping
bioinformatic methods
cell state profiling
single-cell systems biology
molecular medicine

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