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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for identifying targets for distinguishing cell types. In some embodiments, the method comprises: hierarchically clustering expression profiles of cells to generate a dendrogram with each leaf representing the expression profile of a different individual cell. The dendrogram can be pruned by eliminating invalid splits (and their children). The remaining leaves in the dendrogram can be merged, independent of their locations in the dendrogram, based on their distances to one another to generate clusters of expression profiles. The method can identify targets for distinguishing cell types based on targets that are expressed differentially in the clusters.