Cell-level metadata are indispensable for documenting single-cell sequencing datasets.

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides an unprecedented view of cellular diversity of biological systems. However, across the thousands of publications and datasets generated using this technology, we estimate that only a minority (<25%) of studies provide cell-level metadata information...

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Autores principales: Sidhant Puntambekar, Jay R Hesselberth, Kent A Riemondy, Rui Fu
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/42d096b161074f7ea67e1fd927da2edb
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Sumario:Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides an unprecedented view of cellular diversity of biological systems. However, across the thousands of publications and datasets generated using this technology, we estimate that only a minority (<25%) of studies provide cell-level metadata information containing identified cell types and related findings of the published dataset. Metadata omission hinders reproduction, exploration, validation, and knowledge transfer and is a common problem across journals, data repositories, and publication dates. We encourage investigators, reviewers, journals, and data repositories to improve their standards and ensure proper documentation of these valuable datasets.