Community-wide hackathons to identify central themes in single-cell multi-omics.
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SUBMITTER: Le Cao KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8340473 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
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Community-wide hackathons to identify central themes in single-cell multi-omics.
Lê Cao Kim-Anh KA Abadi Al J AJ Davis-Marcisak Emily F EF Hsu Lauren L Arora Arshi A Coullomb Alexis A Deshpande Atul A Feng Yuzhou Y Jeganathan Pratheepa P Loth Melanie M Meng Chen C Mu Wancen W Pancaldi Vera V Sankaran Kris K Righelli Dario D Singh Amrit A Sodicoff Joshua S JS Stein-O'Brien Genevieve L GL Subramanian Ayshwarya A Welch Joshua D JD You Yue Y Argelaguet Ricard R Carey Vincent J VJ Dries Ruben R Greene Casey S CS Holmes Susan S Love Michael I MI Ritchie Matthew E ME Yuan Guo-Cheng GC Culhane Aedin C AC Fertig Elana E
Genome biology 20210805 1
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