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Expression Atlas update: from tissues to single cells.

Published version
Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Papatheodorou, Irene 
Moreno, Pablo 
Manning, Jonathan 
Fuentes, Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer 
George, Nancy 

Abstract

Expression Atlas is EMBL-EBI's resource for gene and protein expression. It sources and compiles data on the abundance and localisation of RNA and proteins in various biological systems and contexts and provides open access to this data for the research community. With the increased availability of single cell RNA-Seq datasets in the public archives, we have now extended Expression Atlas with a new added-value service to display gene expression in single cells. Single Cell Expression Atlas was launched in 2018 and currently includes 123 single cell RNA-Seq studies from 12 species. The website can be searched by genes within or across species to reveal experiments, tissues and cell types where this gene is expressed or under which conditions it is a marker gene. Within each study, cells can be visualized using a pre-calculated t-SNE plot and can be coloured by different features or by cell clusters based on gene expression. Within each experiment, there are links to downloadable files, such as RNA quantification matrices, clustering results, reports on protocols and associated metadata, such as assigned cell types.

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Keywords

Computational Biology, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Gene Expression Profiling, Organ Specificity, Single-Cell Analysis, Software, User-Computer Interface

Journal Title

Nucleic Acids Res

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Journal ISSN

0305-1048
1362-4962

Volume Title

48

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK (C14303/A17197)