TY - JOUR A1 - Xing, Qiao Rui A1 - Farran, Chadi A El A1 - Zeng, Ying Ying A1 - Yi, Yao A1 - Warrier, Tushar A1 - Gautam, Pradeep A1 - Collins, James J. A1 - Xu, Jian A1 - Dröge, Peter A1 - Koh, Cheng-Gee A1 - Li, Hu A1 - Zhang, Li-Feng A1 - Loh, Yuin-Han T1 - Parallel bimodal single-cell sequencing of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility Y1 - 2020/07/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 1027 EP - 1039 DO - 10.1101/gr.257840.119 VL - 30 IS - 7 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/30/7/1027.abstract N2 - Joint profiling of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility within single cells allows for the deconstruction of the complex relationship between transcriptional states and upstream regulatory programs determining different cell fates. Here, we developed an automated method with high sensitivity, assay for single-cell transcriptome and accessibility regions (ASTAR-seq), for simultaneous measurement of whole-cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility within the same single cell. To show the utility of ASTAR-seq, we profiled 384 mESCs under naive and primed pluripotent states as well as a two-cell like state, 424 human cells of various lineage origins (BJ, K562, JK1, and Jurkat), and 480 primary cord blood cells undergoing erythroblast differentiation. With the joint profiles, we configured the transcriptional and chromatin accessibility landscapes of discrete cell states, uncovered linked sets of cis-regulatory elements and target genes unique to each state, and constructed interactome and transcription factor (TF)–centered upstream regulatory networks for various cell states. ER -