title: New frontiers in single-cell analysis.
abstract: For this special issue of J. R. Soc. Interface we present an overview of the driving forces behind technological advances in the field of single-cell analysis. These range from increasing our understanding of cellular heterogeneity through to the study of rare cells, areas of research that cannot be tackled effectively using current high-throughput population-based averaging techniques.
authors.affiliation: The Single Cell Proteomics Group, Chemical Biology Centre (CBC), Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK. r.templer@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Templer
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ces
mesh_terms: D002469:Cell Separation; D044085:Microfluidics; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*