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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

LAmbDA: label ambiguous domain adaptation dataset integration reduces batch effects and improves subtype detection.

Travis S Johnson, Tongxin Wang, Zhi Huang, Christina Y Yu, Yi Wu, Yatong Han, Yan Zhang, Kun Huang, Jie Zhang

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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. Cited by 29 papers.

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Travis S JohnsonDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Tongxin WangDepartment of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Zhi HuangDepartment of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Christina Y YuDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Yi WuDepartment of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Yatong HanHarbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.
Yan ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Kun HuangDepartment of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Jie ZhangDepartment of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Funding

The OSU Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Training Program (CTRIP)T15LM011270 · NLM · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COOMBES, KEVIN ROBERT, JANIES, DANIEL A. · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
Informatics Links Between Histological Features and Genetics in CancerU01CA188547 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HUANG, KUN · 2015 to 2017
$1.2M
Transfer learning approaches for integration of single cell RNA sequencing data from multiple sourcesF31LM013056 · NLM · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, TRAVIS STEELE · 2019 to 2020
$46k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA188547NLM NIH HHS F31 LM013056NLM NIH HHS T15 LM011270
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Abstract

motivationRapid advances in single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) have produced higher-resolution cellular subtypes in multiple tissues and species. Methods are increasingly needed across datasets and species to (i) remove systematic biases, (ii) model multiple datasets with ambiguous labels and (iii) classify cells and map cell type labels. However, most methods only address one of these problems on broad cell types or simulated data using a single model type. It is also important to address higher-resolution cellular subtypes, subtype labels from multiple datasets, models trained on multiple datasets simultaneously and generalizability beyond a single model type.

resultsWe developed a species- and dataset-independent transfer learning framework (LAmbDA) to train models on multiple datasets (even from different species) and applied our framework on simulated, pancreas and brain scRNA-seq experiments. These models mapped corresponding cell types between datasets with inconsistent cell subtype labels while simultaneously reducing batch effects. We achieved high accuracy in labeling cellular subtypes (weighted accuracy simulated 1 datasets: 90%; simulated 2 datasets: 94%; pancreas datasets: 88% and brain datasets: 66%) using LAmbDA Feedforward 1 Layer Neural Network with bagging. This method achieved higher weighted accuracy in labeling cellular subtypes than two other state-of-the-art methods, scmap and CaSTLe in brain (66% versus 60% and 32%). Furthermore, it achieved better performance in correctly predicting ambiguous cellular subtype labels across datasets in 88% of test cases compared with CaSTLe (63%), scmap (50%) and MetaNeighbor (50%). LAmbDA is model- and dataset-independent and generalizable to diverse data types representing an advance in biocomputing. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: github.com/tsteelejohnson91/LAmbDA. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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