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    <h2>A search tool for single cell RNA-seq data by gene lists</h2>

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    <p>Recently a very large collection of single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) datasets has been generated and publicly released. For the collection to be useful, the information must be organized in a way that supports queries that are relevant to researchers. `scfind` builds an index from scRNA-seq datasets which organizes the information in a suitable and compact manner so that the datasets can be very efficiently searched for either cells or cell types in which a given list of genes is expressed.</p>

    <p>Author: Vladimir Kiselev </p>

    <p>Maintainer: Vladimir Kiselev &#x3c;&#x76;&#x6c;&#x61;&#x64;&#x69;&#x6d;&#x69;&#x72;&#x2e;&#x79;&#x75;&#x2e;&#x6b;&#x69;&#x73;&#x65;&#x6c;&#x65;&#x76;&#x20;&#x61;&#x74;&#x20;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6f;&#x6d;&#x3e; </p>


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source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("scfind")</pre>


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