"https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2859" class="external-link">Trapnell <i>el al.</i>, 2014, Nature Biotechnology</a>. This dataset was originally acquired for the purpose of studying the process of differentiation of human myoblasts that can be reasonably explained by the linear model (<i>i.e.</i>, non-branching, chain-like structure). However, as the authors discuss in detail in the original article, their trajectory inference software based on a minimum spanning tree (MST) helped detect contamination w