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William Evan Johnson

Boston UniversityORCID 0000-0002-6247-6595Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 18 Genetics· 3 Microbiology· 3 Neuroscience· 3 Genomics· 2 Immunology· 2

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Approach:statistical model· 29 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 13 Research Focus:differential expression· 12 Organism:human· 12 Organism:mouse· 10 Research Focus:benchmarking· 9 Research Focus:batch correction / integration· 7 Approach:experimental assay· 7

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BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewedMar 5, 2020

Decontamination of ambient RNA in single-cell RNA-seq with DecontX

Shiyi Yang, Sean E. Corbett, Yusuke Koga…·Joshua David Campbell

DecontX is a Bayesian method to remove ambient RNA contamination in scRNA-seq data, improving cell cluster separation and marker gene accuracy.

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BioinformaticsBMC BioinformaticsPeer-reviewedMay 2, 2019

scruff: An R/Bioconductor package for preprocessing single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Zhe Wang, Junming Hu, William Evan Johnson, Joshua David Campbell

scruff is an R/Bioconductor package that preprocesses scRNA-seq data from CEL-Seq protocols, providing quality metrics and visualizations for reproducible analysis.

30 citations

scRNA-seqstatistical model

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GeneticsMolecular PainPeer-reviewedJan 1, 2019

C57BL/6 substrain differences in inflammatory and neuropathic nociception and genetic mapping of a major quantitative trait locus underlying acute thermal nociception

Camron D. Bryant, Deniz Bağdaş, Lisa R. Goldberg…·Mohamad Imad Damaj

The paper identifies a major QTL on chromosome 7 associated with acute thermal nociception in C57BL/6 mouse substrains.

31 citations

mousestatistical model

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 24, 2018

Interactive single cell RNA-Seq analysis with the Single Cell Toolkit (SCTK)

David F. Jenkins, Tyler Faits, Emma A. Briars…·William Evan Johnson

The paper introduces SCTK, an interactive scRNA-Seq analysis tool with command-line and GUI interfaces for handling complex single-cell data.

8 citations

scRNA-seqstatistical model

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