# Utilities for handling single-cell droplet datasets |Environment|Status| |---|---| |[BioC-release](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/DropletUtils.html)|[](https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/DropletUtils/)| |[BioC-devel](https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/DropletUtils.html)|[](https://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/DropletUtils/)| The **DropletUtils** package provides a number of utility functions for handling single-cell (RNA-seq) data from droplet technologies such as 10X Genomics. This includes data loading from count matrices or molecule information files, identification of cells from empty droplets, removal of barcode-swapped pseudo-cells, and downsampling of the count matrix. Check out the [Bioconductor landing page](https://bioconductor.org/packages/DropletUtils) for more details.