PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Bo Ding AU - Lina Zheng AU - Wei Wang TI - Assessment of single cell RNA-seq normalization methods AID - 10.1101/064329 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 064329 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/17/064329.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/17/064329.full AB - We have assessed the performance of seven normalization methods for single cell RNA-seq using data generated from dilution of RNA samples. Our analyses showed that methods considering spike-in ERCC RNA molecules significantly outperformed those not considering ERCCs. This work provides a guidance of selecting normalization methods to remove technical noise in single cell RNA-seq data.