Computational biology

Estimating the population abundance of tissue-infiltrating immune and stromal cell populations using gene expression

Background: Quantification of tumor heterogeneity is essential to better understand cancer progression and to adapt therapeutic treatments to patient specificities. Bioinformatic tools to assess the different cell populations from single-omic …

Estimating the population abundance of tissue-infiltrating immune and stromal cell populations using gene expression

We introduce the Microenvironment Cell Populations-counter (MCP-counter) method, which allows the robust quantification of the absolute abundance of eight immune and two stromal cell populations in heterogeneous tissues from transcriptomic data. We …