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I thank E. da Veiga Beltrame for feedback on the manuscript, G. Eraslan for making fast code for fitting negative binomial models available, and the scientific community on Twitter for suggesting writing up this analysis as a manuscript. V.S. was funded in part by the EMBL International PhD Programme and NIH U19MH114830.
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Svensson, V. Droplet scRNA-seq is not zero-inflated. Nat Biotechnol 38, 147–150 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0379-5
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