SLOTH (Single-cell Lineage on Targeted Hypermutation)

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Mapping single-cell-resolution cell phylogeny reveals cell population dynamics during organ developments

PROCEDURE

• Single Molecule Sequecing Pipeline (smrt)

  • Adaptors Trimming
  • Circular Consensus Sequence Generation
  • Align to Reference Sequence
  • Annotate Sequence Features
  • Link Sample Barcode Sequence
  • Cluster Molecular Indentifier (UMI) Sequence
  • Group Reads by Sample Barcode and Molecular Indentifier
  • Generate Consensus Sequence for Lineage Barcode
  • Call Mutation
  • Post Quality Filter

• Single Cell Tree Construction (tree)

  • Build Tree by Maximum Likelihood Method
  • Fix Tree
  • Visualize Tree

• Benchmarking Cell Lineage Tracing System (benchmark)

  • alemany_whole-organism_2018
  • bowling_engineered_2020
  • chan_molecular_2019
  • chen_efficient_2020
  • kalhor_developmental_2018
  • lee-six_population_2018
  • mckenna_whole-organism_2016
  • pei_polylox_2017
  • quinn_single-cell_2021
  • raj_simultaneous_2018
  • spanjaard_simultaneous_2018

• Simulation (simu)

  • Generate Cell Tree (division / differentiation / mutation)
  • Subsample Barcoded Cells
  • Reconstruct Cell Lineage Tree

• Population Dynamics (pop)

  • ?

READ MORE

scientific question : https://celllineage.github.io/SLOTH/index.html

technical details: https://github.com/CellLineage/SLOTH/wiki

HOW TO USE?

git clone https://github.com/CellLineage/SLOTH.git

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CITATION

Liu, K., Deng, S., Ye, C. et al. Mapping single-cell-resolution cell phylogeny reveals cell population dynamics during organ development. Nat Methods 18, 1506–1514 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01325-x

LICENSE

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