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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Miller JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790494 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20201229
The advancement of single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies has led to an explosion of cell type definitions across multiple organs and organisms. While standards for data and metadata intake are arising, organization of cell types has largely been left to individual investigators, resulting in widely varying nomenclature and limited alignment between taxonomies. To facilitate cross-dataset comparison, the Allen Institute created the common cell type nomenclature (CCN) for matching and tracking c ...[more]