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BASiCS:Bayesian Analysis of Single-Cell Sequencing data

Single-cell mRNA sequencing can uncover novel cell-to-cell heterogeneity in gene expression levels in seemingly homogeneous populations of cells. However, these experiments are prone to high levels of technical noise, creating new challenges for identifying genes that show genuine heterogeneous expression within the population of cells under study. BASiCS (Bayesian Analysis of Single-Cell Sequencing data) is an integrated Bayesian hierarchical model to perform statistical analyses of single-cell RNA sequencing datasets in the context of supervised experiments (where the groups of cells of interest are known a priori, e.g. experimental conditions or cell types). BASiCS performs built-in data normalisation (global scaling) and technical noise quantification (based on spike-in genes). BASiCS provides an intuitive detection criterion for highly (or lowly) variable genes within a single group of cells. Additionally, BASiCS can compare gene expression patterns between two or more pre-specified groups of cells. Unlike traditional differential expression tools, BASiCS quantifies changes in expression that lie beyond comparisons of means, also allowing the study of changes in cell-to-cell heterogeneity. The latter can be quantified via a biological over-dispersion parameter that measures the excess of variability that is observed with respect to Poisson sampling noise, after normalisation and technical noise removal. Due to the strong mean/over-dispersion confounding that is typically observed for scRNA-seq datasets, BASiCS also tests for changes in residual over-dispersion, defined by residual values with respect to a global mean/over-dispersion trend.

Maintained by Catalina Vallejos. Last updated 5 months ago.

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scGate:Marker-Based Cell Type Purification for Single-Cell Sequencing Data

A common bioinformatics task in single-cell data analysis is to purify a cell type or cell population of interest from heterogeneous datasets. 'scGate' automatizes marker-based purification of specific cell populations, without requiring training data or reference gene expression profiles. Briefly, 'scGate' takes as input: i) a gene expression matrix stored in a 'Seurat' object and ii) a โ€œgating modelโ€ (GM), consisting of a set of marker genes that define the cell population of interest. The GM can be as simple as a single marker gene, or a combination of positive and negative markers. More complex GMs can be constructed in a hierarchical fashion, akin to gating strategies employed in flow cytometry. 'scGate' evaluates the strength of signature marker expression in each cell using the rank-based method 'UCell', and then performs k-nearest neighbor (kNN) smoothing by calculating the mean 'UCell' score across neighboring cells. kNN-smoothing aims at compensating for the large degree of sparsity in scRNA-seq data. Finally, a universal threshold over kNN-smoothed signature scores is applied in binary decision trees generated from the user-provided gating model, to annotate cells as either โ€œpureโ€ or โ€œimpureโ€, with respect to the cell population of interest. See the related publication Andreatta et al. (2022) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac141>.

Maintained by Massimo Andreatta. Last updated 2 months ago.

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