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Varun Rao

University of Maryland, BaltimorePrimary ORCID profile (0000-0003-1535-5907 · 2 papers)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Differential cell signaling testing for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell data by dominoSignal

Jacob T. Mitchell, Orian Stapleton, Kavita Krishnan, Sushma Nagaraj, Dmitrijs Lvovs, Christopher Cherry, Amanda Poissonnier, Wesley R. Horton, Andrew Adey, Varun Rao, Amanda L. Huff, Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman, Luciane Tsukamoto Kagohara, Neeha Zaidi, Lisa M. Coussens, , Elana Judith Fertig

The paper introduces dominoSignal, a software tool that statistically tests differential cell signaling from single-cell data to infer changes in cell-cell communication networks.

Bioinformatics · Feb 26, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics