Single cell RNA-seq data of human hESCs to evaluate SCnorm: robust normalization of single-cell rna-seq data
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE85917 | GEO | 2017/04/05
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA339754
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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