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	単一細胞RNAシーケンス（scRNA-seq）差次的発現解析	クラスター分析
分野	バイオインフォマティクス	統計学
系統	Process / pipeline	Latent structure
提唱年	2013–2015 (first scRNA-seq DE tools; refined 2015–present)	1939–1967
提唱者	Pioneered through Seurat (Satija lab) and scde (Kharchenko lab) frameworks, building on bulk RNA-seq DE foundations	Robert C. Tryon (early development); Ward (1963) for hierarchical; MacQueen (1967) for k-means
種類	Computational bioinformatics pipeline	Unsupervised classification / grouping
原典	Butler, A., Hoffman, P., Smibert, P., Papalexi, E., & Satija, R. (2018). Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species. Nature Biotechnology, 36(5), 411–420.	Everitt, B. S., Landau, S., Leese, M. & Stahl, D. (2011). Cluster Analysis (5th ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-0470749913
別名	scRNA-seq DE, single-cell differential expression, scDE, cell-level differential expression analysis	clustering, unsupervised classification, data clustering, numerical taxonomy
関連	5	5
概要	Single-cell RNA-seq differential expression (scRNA-seq DE) analysis identifies genes whose expression levels differ significantly between defined groups of individual cells — such as cell types, disease states, or treatment conditions. Unlike bulk RNA-seq, which averages signals across millions of cells, scRNA-seq DE operates on the transcriptome of each individual cell, enabling fine-grained characterization of cell-population-specific gene regulation and heterogeneity within seemingly homogeneous tissue.	Cluster analysis is a family of unsupervised multivariate techniques that partition a set of objects or observations into internally homogeneous, mutually distinct groups — clusters — based on measured characteristics, without any prior knowledge of group membership. It is widely used in market segmentation, bioinformatics, psychology, and social science to reveal natural groupings in data.