diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a8ae558ed789c08c9eef5145758fe8b5a6d66ac5..91aad279dcc4b07e574f1d1db65afeee12c054af 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# DISCO: scRNAseq +# DISCO: scRNAseq ![alt text](https://github.com/eyscott/DISCO_scRNAseq/blob/master/Images/WheelerLabLogo.png "Wheeler Lab") DISCO-Digital Microfluidic Isolation of Single Cells for - Omics The laser lysis capture method implemented in DISCO offers spatially and temporally resolved capture of single cells, while Digital Microfluidics (DMF) is capable of retrieving this lysate and permitting flexible downstream analyses, such as scRNA-seq. Each cell has a barcode incorporated into Read 1, making the cell's transcriptome accountable and traceable through the pipeline. This barcode includes a unique cell barcode (12bp) and a UMI (8bp), the first part of our bioinformatic pipeline deals with parsing these.