SIMON HAENDELER

PhantomBuster

Lineage Tracing Pipeline
syntonym/phantombuster

I designed and implemented the PhantomBuster pipeline to analyse whole-tissue lineage tracing data and CRISPR-LICHT screens. PhantomBuster removes 95% of measured lineages as artificial, as these assays are overproportionally affected by index-swapping in a so-far undescribed way. With demultiplexing implemented in python and p-value calculation for CRISPR-LICHT screens, it is an end-to-end pipeline.

Used in Haendeler et al 2025 , Lindenhofer et al 2024 , Pflug et al 2024 and Esk et al 2020 .