CellexalVR: A virtual reality platform to visualise and analyse single-cell data

Abstract

Single-cell RNAseq is a routinely used technique to explore the composition of cell populations, and they are often visualised using dimension reduction methods where the cells are represented in two or three dimensional space. Many tools are available to do this but visualising and cross-comparing these representations can be challenging, especially when cells are projected onto three dimensions which can be more informative for complex datasets. Here we present CellexalVR (www.cellexalvr.med.lu.se), a feature-rich, fully interactive virtual reality environment for the visualisation and analysis of single-cell experiments that allows researchers to intuitively and collaboratively gain an understanding of their data.