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Cao, Y., Kitanovski, S., Küppers, R. et al. UMI or not UMI, that is the question for scRNA-seq zero-inflation. Nat Biotechnol 39, 158–159 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00810-6
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