Computational challenges of single cell profiling

M Hallett

21/07/2020

Goal today

  • What is single cell sequencing?

  • How does it help

  • Discuss the major computational challenges associated with single cell sequencing.

  • Short talk about a current project from my lab where we profile Candida albicans at the single cell level.

Information loss in bulk profiling

From Trapnell (2018) Defining cell types and states with single-cell genomes. Genome Research.

scDNA-seq and tumoral evolution

Single cell in the fungal world

BIOL 480

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