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The next level of complexity is the allele-specific analysis, focused on identifying differential gene expression or regulation between homologous chromosomes by estimating the allelic imbalance of read counts at individual single-nucleotide variants. Here, we present NEXT-scASV, a scalable Nextflow pipeline for calling allele-specific variants (ASVs) from 5\u2032 single-cell RNA sequencing data. NEXT-scASV automates the entire process\u2014from read alignment and quality control to variant calling and statistical evaluation of the allelic imbalance\u2014within a containerized environment, ensuring reproducibility and ease of deployment across platforms. NEXT-scASV is able to perform\u00a0de novo ASV detection from single-cell sequencing data without prior genotyping. Its modular design allows for massive parallelization, efficiently handling the scale of modern atlas-level studies. We validate NEXT-scASV on a dataset of 135,000 peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 57 donors, demonstrating that it processes large-scale data efficiently, completing analysis in a week on a cluster with one node and 100 threads. Crucially, the pipeline reliably identifies ASVs even in rare cell populations (e.g., gdT GZMBhi and memory B IGHMhi cells), which remains elusive for bulk analyses. We also successfully detect allele-specific regulation of long non-coding RNAs and other lowly expressed, cell type-specific genes. Genes linked to detected ASVs show a high concordance (80%) with previously reported eQTLs. 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