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Fig. 1 | Genome Biology

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From: Feature selection and dimension reduction for single-cell RNA-Seq based on a multinomial model

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Multinomial model adequately characterizes sampling distributions of technical and biological replicates negative control data. a Fraction of zeros is plotted against the total number of UMI in each droplet for the technical replicates. b As a but for cells in the biological replicates (monocytes). c After down-sampling replicates to 10,000 UMIs per droplet to remove variability due to the differences in sequencing depth, the fraction of zeros is computed for each gene and plotted against the log of expression across all samples for the technical replicates data. The solid curve is theoretical probability of observing a zero as a function of the expected counts derived from the multinomial model (blue) and its Poisson approximation (green). d As c but for the biological replicates (monocytes) dataset and after down-sampling to 575 UMIs per cell. Here, we also add the theoretical probability derived from a negative binomial model (red)

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