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 ### RCTIcollection: an easy-to-use wrapper function to run celltype identifiers in R
 
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 - The package provides an easy-to-use R wrapper function to run various celltype identifiers for single-cell RNA-seq data.
 - It was used to obtain the results in the following papers.