Single-cell RNA sequencing measures gene expression one cell at a time, revealing the cell types inside a tumour that bulk sequencing averages away.
Single-cell transcriptomics is the quantification and analysis of the transcriptomes of individual cells, which makes it possible to unravel heterogeneous cell populations, reconstruct developmental pathways and model transcriptional dynamics (Wikipedia). Droplet platforms such as 10x Genomics Chromium capture thousands of cells per run; CELLxGENE and the Human Cell Atlas hold tens of millions of profiled cells and are the training data for single-cell foundation models. Pseudobulk, summing the cells of a sample, recovers a bulk-like profile for comparison. Single-cell data is sparse and normalised differently from bulk, so a model trained on one is out of distribution on the other.
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