CellTracer

CellTracer elucidates multilevel interactions that shape cell development trajectories in tumour progression by integrating single-cell gene expression data.


Key Features:

  • Extensive Data Repository: Houses gene expression profiles from 1,941,552 cells across 222 single-cell datasets.
  • Development Trajectories Analysis: Provides insights into developmental pathways of distinct cell populations within the tumour microenvironment.
  • Multilevel Interplay Exploration: Enables investigation of molecular alterations and causative crosstalk among genes, biological contexts, cell characteristics, and clinical treatments along development trajectories.
  • Analytical Toolkit: Offers 12 analytical tools for retrieval and analysis of gene expression, cell cluster distribution, cell development trajectories, and cell-state variations under varying conditions.

Scientific Applications:

  • Pathological Development Analysis: Characterizes developmental landscapes of tumour-associated cell populations to clarify pathological processes.
  • Precision Medicine: Identifies driver features at multiple levels to support tailoring therapeutic strategies based on specific cellular behaviors and interactions.
  • Biomarker Discovery: Facilitates identification of candidate diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers from multilevel gene expression and trajectory data.
  • Therapeutic Exploration: Enables examination of relationships between cell characteristics, molecular events, and clinical treatments to inform therapeutic hypotheses within the tumour microenvironment.

Methodology:

Contains gene expression profiles from 1,941,552 cells across 222 single-cell datasets and provides 12 analytical tools for retrieval and analysis of gene expression, cell cluster distribution, development trajectories, and cell-state variations.

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Details

License:
Other
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
Java
Added:
12/27/2022
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Publications

Guo Q, Wang P, Liu Q, Hao Y, Gao Y, Qi Y, Xu R, Chen H, Xin M, Wu X, Sun R, Zhi H, Zhang Y, Ning S, Li X. CellTracer: a comprehensive database to dissect the causative multilevel interplay contributing to cell development trajectories. Nucleic Acids Research. 2022;51(D1):D861-D869. doi:10.1093/nar/gkac892. PMID:36243976. PMCID:PMC9825461.

PMID: 36243976
PMCID: PMC9825461
Funding: - National Key Research and Development Program of China: 2018YFC2000100 - National Natural Science Foundation of China: 32070622, 32070672, 61873075, 62172131, 81902646 - University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province: UNPYSCT-2020173