Single-cell transcriptomic characterization of 20 organs and tissues from individual mice creates a Tabula Muris

We have created a compendium of single cell transcriptome data from the model organism Mus musculus comprising more than 100,000 cells from 20 organs and tissues. These data represent a new resource for cell biology, revealing gene expression in poorly characterized cell populations and allowing for direct and controlled comparison of gene expression in cell types shared between tissues, such as T-lymphocytes and endothelial cells from distinct anatomical locations. Two distinct technical approaches were used for most tissues: one approach, microfluidic droplet-based 3-end counting, enabled the survey of thousands of cells at relatively low coverage, while the other, FACS-based full length transcript analysis, enabled characterization of cell types with high sensitivity and coverage. The cumulative data provide the foundation for an atlas of transcriptomic cell biology.

James T. Webber | O. L. May | Robert C. Jones | N. Neff | L. Penland | I. Weissman | S. Quake | J. Derisi | A. May | O. Botvinnik | M. Krasnow | W. Kong | R. Nusse | Rahul Sinha | Geoffrey M. Stanley | G. Gulati | K. Travaglini | Ahmad N. Nabhan | Stephanie D. Conley | B. Barres | T. Wyss-Coray | M. Clarke | N. Schaum | Jim Karkanias | S. Darmanis | J. Batson | Michelle B. Chen | Steven Chen | F. Green | A. Maynard | R. Sit | F. Zanini | Ankit S. Baghel | Isaac Bakerman | I. Bansal | D. Berdnik | Biter Bilen | D. Brownfield | Corey Cain | Min Cho | Giana Cirolia | Aaron Demers | Kubilay Demir | A. Morrée | Tessa Divita | H. D. Bois | Laughing Bear Torrez Dulgeroff | H. Ebadi | F. H. Espinoza | M. Fish | Qiang Gan | B. George | A. Gillich | Geraldine Genetiano | Xueying Gu | Y. Hang | Shayan Hosseinzadeh | Albin Huang | Tal Iram | Taichi Isobe | Feather Ives | Kevin S. Kao | G. Karnam | Aaron M. Kershner | B. Kiss | Maya E. Kumar | Jonathan Y Lam | Davis P. Lee | Song Eun Lee | Guang Li | Qingyun Li | Ling Liu | Annie Lo | Wan-Jin Lu | A. Manjunath | Kaia L. May | Marina McKay | R. Metzger | Marco Mignardi | D. Min | K. Ng | Joseph J Noh | R. Patkar | Weng Chuan Peng | R. Puccinelli | E. Rulifson | Shaheen S. Sikandar | Krzysztof Szade | W. Tan | C. Tato | Krissie Tellez | C. Tropini | Lucas M. Waldburger | L. V. Weele | Michael N. Wosczyna | Jinyi Xiang | Soso Xue | Justin Youngyunpipatkul | Macy E. Zardeneta | Fan Zhang | Lu Zhou | Paola Castro | D. Croote | A. Pisco | C. Kuo | B. Lehallier | P. Nguyen | Serena Y Tan | Bruce Wang | H. Yousef | P. Beachy | Charles K. F. Chan | K. C. Huang | K. Weinberg | Sean M. Wu | Seung K. Kim | T. Rando | J. Sonnenburg | Ross J. Metzger | Eric J. Rulifson | K. Szade | Joseph J. Noh | T. Divita | Jonathan Y. Lam | S. Lee | Christin S Kuo | K. Demir | Marina Mckay | Joshua Batson | Weilun Tan | Foad Green

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