Recent Advances in Single-cell Sequencing Technologies

Overview

Journal Precis Clin Med

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Jul 13

PMID 35821681

Authors

Lu Wen

Fuchou Tang

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Abstract

Single-cell omics sequencing was first achieved for the transcriptome in 2009, which was followed by fast development of technologies for profiling the genome, DNA methylome, 3D genome architecture, chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, etc., in an individual cell. In this review we mainly focus on the recent progress in four topics in the single-cell omics field: single-cell epigenome sequencing, single-cell genome sequencing for lineage tracing, spatially resolved single-cell transcriptomics and third-generation sequencing platform-based single-cell omics sequencing. We also discuss the potential applications and future directions of these single-cell omics sequencing technologies for different biomedical systems, especially for the human stem cell field.

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