# Pre-analysis tools

This section constitutes tools that are useful in preparing single cell data for downstream analysis, such as multi-sample comparison or multi-omics analysis. To invoke Pre-analysis tools, click on any **Single cell counts** data node. These include the following tasks:

* [Generate group cell counts](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/generate-group-cell-counts.md)
* [Pool cells](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/pool-cells.md)
* [Split matrix](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/split-matrix.md)
* [Hashtag demultiplexing](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/hashtag-demultiplexing.md)
* [Merge matrices](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/merge-matrices.md)
* [Descriptive statistics](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/descriptive-statistics.md)
* [Spot clean](/partek/partek-flow/user-manual/task-menu/pre-analysis-tools/spot-clean.md)

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