Table 3 Number of genes expressed in at least 10% of the cells in the simulated data sets, comprised of subsamples of the scRNA-seq data set 1, with various sequencing depths (columns) and read lengths (rows).

From: Impact of sequencing depth and read length on single cell RNA sequencing data of T cells

Sequencing depth (PE reads x million)

Read length (bp)

0.05

0.25

0.625

1.25

25

6,081

8,497

9,184

10,849

50

5,665

7,801

8,255

8,240

100

5,141

6,879

7,333

7,440

150

4,836

6,458

6,824

6,936

  1. Analysis of empirical drop out rate on simulated datasets.