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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

A Bayesian model for single cell transcript expression analysis on MERFISH data.

Johannes Köster, Myles Brown, X Shirley Liu

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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Johannes KösterAlgorithms for Reproducible Bioinformatics, Genome Informatics, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Myles BrownDivision of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
X Shirley LiuCenter for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Large-Scale In Vivo Functional Characterization of the Human CistromeR01HG008728 · NHGRI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI BROWN, MYLES A, LIU, XIAOLE SHIRLEY · 2015 to 2017
$2.2M
Inferring Mammalian Transcriptional Regulatory Networks from EpigenomicsR01GM099409 · NIGMS · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI LIU, XIAOLE SHIRLEY · 2011 to 2014
$1.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG008728NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099409
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Abstract

motivationMultiplexed error-robust fluorescence in-situ hybridization (MERFISH) is a recent technology to obtain spatially resolved gene or transcript expression profiles in single cells for hundreds to thousands of genes in parallel. So far, no statistical framework to analyze MERFISH data is available.

resultsWe present a Bayesian model for single cell transcript expression analysis on MERFISH data. We show that the model successfully captures uncertainty in MERFISH data and eliminates systematic biases that can occur in raw RNA molecule counts obtained with MERFISH. Our model accurately estimates transcript expression and additionally provides the full probability distribution and credible intervals for each transcript. We further show how this enables MERFISH to scale towards the whole genome while being able to control the uncertainty in obtained results. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The presented model is implemented on top of Rust-Bio (Köster, 2016) and available open-source as MERFISHtools (https://merfishtools.github.io). It can be easily installed via Bioconda (Grüning et al., 2018). The entire analysis performed in this paper is provided as a fully reproducible Snakemake (Köster and Rahmann, 2012) workflow via Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.752340). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Gene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell AnalysisBayes TheoremIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceTranscription, Genetic

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