After library construction and sequencing, raw sequencing data were de-multiplexed and mapped to the mouse reference genome (mm10) using the CellRanger toolkit (10X Genomics, version 4.0.0). Gene expression matrices were then generated from Foxc2fl/fl control and NC-Foxc2-/- mice. The matrix files were then used for data processing and downstream analysis using the BIOMEX browser-based software platform and its incorporated packages developed in R (76 (link)). Quality control and data pretreatment was performed in BIOMEX with the following manually set parameters: (i) genes with a row average of <0.005 were excluded for downstream analysis and (ii) cells in which over 8% of unique molecular identifiers were derived from the mitochondrial genome were considered as dead cells and removed from downstream analysis. The data were then normalized in BIOMEX using similar methodology to the NormalizeData function as implemented in the Seurat package (77 (link)).
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