Single-cell chromatin state analysis with Signac

T Stuart, A Srivastava, S Madad, CA Lareau, R Satija - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Nature methods, 2021nature.com
The recent development of experimental methods for measuring chromatin state at single-
cell resolution has created a need for computational tools capable of analyzing these
datasets. Here we developed Signac, a comprehensive toolkit for the analysis of single-cell
chromatin data. Signac enables an end-to-end analysis of single-cell chromatin data,
including peak calling, quantification, quality control, dimension reduction, clustering,
integration with single-cell gene expression datasets, DNA motif analysis and interactive …
Abstract
The recent development of experimental methods for measuring chromatin state at single-cell resolution has created a need for computational tools capable of analyzing these datasets. Here we developed Signac, a comprehensive toolkit for the analysis of single-cell chromatin data. Signac enables an end-to-end analysis of single-cell chromatin data, including peak calling, quantification, quality control, dimension reduction, clustering, integration with single-cell gene expression datasets, DNA motif analysis and interactive visualization. Through its seamless compatibility with the Seurat package, Signac facilitates the analysis of diverse multimodal single-cell chromatin data, including datasets that co-assay DNA accessibility with gene expression, protein abundance and mitochondrial genotype. We demonstrate scaling of the Signac framework to analyze datasets containing over 700,000 cells.
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