16 Resources

Useful resources for next steps.

16.0.1 Suggested Further Reading Material

16.1 Help and fruther Resources

Seurat Vignettes

https://satijalab.org/seurat/index.html

There are a good many Seurat vigettes for different aspects of the Seurat package. E.g.

Seurat Cheatsheet

https://satijalab.org/seurat/articles/essential_commands.html

A useful resource for asking; How can I do ‘X’ with my seurat object?

OSCA

https://bioconductor.org/books/release/OSCA/

An comprehensive resource for analysis approaches for single cell data. This uses the SingleCellExperiment bioconductor ecosystem, but alot of the same principle still apply.

This includes a good discussion of useing pseudobulk approaches, worth checking out for differential expression analyses.

MBP training Reading list

https://monashbioinformaticsplatform.github.io/Single-Cell-Workshop/

A workshop page for a previous workshop (upon which this one is based) run by Monash Bioinformatics Platform - down the bottom there is an extensive list of useful single cell links and resources.

Biocommons Single Cell Omics

https://www.biocommons.org.au/single-cell-omics

Join the single cell omics community resources being setup by biocommons.


16.2 Data

Demo 10X data

https://www.10xgenomics.com/resources/datasets

10X genomics have quite a few example datasets availble for download (including PBMC3k). This is a useful resource if you want to see what the ‘raw’ data looks like for a particular technology.

GEO

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/

Many papers publish their raw single cell data in GEO. Formats vary, but often you can find the counts matrix. # (PART) Other resources {-}

Seurat data

https://github.com/satijalab/seurat-data

Package for obtaining a few datasets as seurat objects.


16.3 Analysis Tools

A handful of the many tools that might be worth checking out for next steps.

Cyclone

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26142758/

Part of the scran package, cyclone is a(nother) method for determining cell phase. Doco

Harmony

https://portals.broadinstitute.org/harmony/articles/quickstart.html

Method for integration of multiple single cell datasets.

SingleR

http://bioconductor.org/books/release/SingleRBook/

There is extensive documentation for the singleR package in the ‘singleR’ book.

Scrublet

https://github.com/swolock/scrublet

A python based tool for doublet detection. One of many tools in this space.

ScVelo

https://scvelo.readthedocs.io/

A package for single cell RNA velocity analysis, useful for developmental/pseudotime trajectories. Python/scanpy based.

Monocle

https://cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/monocle3/

A package for single cell developmental//pseudotime trajectory analysis.

TidySeurat

https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyseurat/

For fans of tidyverse-everything, there’s tidyseurat. Example workflow here


16.4 Preprocessing Tools

Tooks that process raw sequencing data into counts matricies

Cell Ranger

https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/software/pipelines/latest/what-is-cell-ranger

CellRanger is the 10X tool that takes raw fastq sequence files and produces the counts matricies that are the starting point for today’s analysis. It only works for 10X data.

STARSolo

STAR is an aligner (which is actually used within cell ranger). STARSolo is a tool for producing counts matricies, and is configurable enough for use with multiple technologies.

https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/blob/master/docs/STARsolo.md