Cellular composition

EpiSort: Enumeration of cell types using targeted bisulfite sequencing

The cellular composition of tumors is now recognized as an essential phenotype, with implications to diagnostic, progression and therapy efficacy. A tool for accurate profiling of the tumor microenvironment is lacking, as single-cell methods and …

xCell: Digitally portraying the tissue cellular heterogeneity landscape

Tissues are complex milieus consisting of numerous cell types. Several recent methods have attempted to enumerate cell subsets from transcriptomes. However, the available methods have used limited sources for training and give only a partial …

Widespread parainflammation in human cancer

BACKGROUND Chronic inflammation has been recognized as one of the hallmarks of cancer. We recently showed that parainflammation, a unique variant of inflammation between homeostasis and chronic inflammation, strongly promotes mouse gut tumorigenesis …