How to Analyze Read Counts datasets and UMI-Counts datasets in scRNA-seq

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[ksaunders73]

Hello!

I am analyzing datasets with some having UMI-counts matrices, but some being read-counts matrices (they were sequenced with technologies that do not incorporate UMIs). According to this paper (UMI-count modeling and differential expression analysis for single-cell RNA sequencing (2018)), the two types of counts have different distributions, which (if I am correct in my understanding), may make comparing them not as statistically valid. Are there any software or packages (preferably in R) that can analyze both while still being statistically sound?

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