Single-cell consensus clustering (SC3) provides user-friendly, robust and accurate cell clustering as well as downstream analysis for single-cell RNA-seq data. Single-cell RNA-seq enables the quantitative characterization of cell types based on global transcriptome profiles. We present single-cell consensus clustering (SC3), a user-friendly tool for unsupervised clustering, which achieves high accuracy and robustness by combining multiple clustering solutions through a consensus approach ( http://bioconductor.org/packages/SC3 ). We demonstrate that SC3 is capable of identifying subclones from the transcriptomes of neoplastic cells collected from patients.

SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data