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Choosing a Pipeline

Choosing a Pipeline

Cell Ranger provides a set of analysis pipelines that process single cell data from 10x Genomics Chromium instruments to align reads, generate Feature Barcode matrices, perform clustering and other secondary analysis, and more.

Find your primary pipeline and learn how to use it


Select your library type(s) above, and we will guide you to the appropriate pipeline and corresponding documentation.

Cell Ranger has three pipelines for primary analysis:

  • cellranger multi (recommended)
  • cellranger count
  • cellranger vdj

The required input files for each of these pipelines are described on the List of Inputs page.

Refer to the table below to find the recommended pipeline for each library combination. Click on the library type for detailed documentation and FASTQ file specifications.

Conduct secondary analysis to: