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85 million cells — and counting — at your fingertips

Chan Zuckerberg CELL by GENE Discover aims to be a one-stop shop for single-cell RNA sequencing data storage, access and analysis.
  1. Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Two memers of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative team demonstrate the Cell by Gene platform on a desktop computer

CZ CELLxGENE has helped to cut the time it takes to collect and analyse single-cell data. Credit: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

When it comes to single-cell gene-expression data, biologists face an embarrassment of riches. There are thousands of data sets to choose from. Unfortunately, those data sets have not all been processed in the same way; they might use different names for similar or identical cells or tissues; and they are scattered across the Internet — or available only on request.

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Nature 629, 248-249 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01217-y

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