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ArticleNature communications2019

Automated optimized parameters for T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding improve visualization and analysis of large datasets.

Anna C Belkina, Christopher O Ciccolella, Rina Anno, Richard Halpert, Josef Spidlen, Jennifer E Snyder-Cappione

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 221 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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221 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Anna C BelkinaDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. BELKINA@BU.EDU.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-6254
Christopher O CiccolellaOmiq, Inc, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, USA.
Rina AnnoDepartment of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA.
Richard HalpertBD Life Sciences-FlowJo, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2457-9507
Josef SpidlenBD Life Sciences-FlowJo, Ashland, OR, 97520, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-1910
Jennifer E Snyder-CappioneFlow Cytometry Core Facility, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.

Funding

Persistent HIV expression induced type I IFN responses and inflammagingR01AG060890 · NIA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI GUMMULURU, SURYARAM, LIN, NINA H. · 2018 to 2022
$3.8M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG060890
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate and comprehensive extraction of information from high-dimensional single cell datasets necessitates faithful visualizations to assess biological populations. A state-of-the-art algorithm for non-linear dimension reduction, t-SNE, requires multiple heuristics and fails to produce clear representations of datasets when millions of cells are projected. We develop opt-SNE, an automated toolkit for t-SNE parameter selection that utilizes Kullback-Leibler divergence evaluation in real time to tailor the early exaggeration and overall number of gradient descent iterations in a dataset-specific manner. The precise calibration of early exaggeration together with opt-SNE adjustment of gradient descent learning rate dramatically improves computation time and enables high-quality visualization of large cytometry and transcriptomics datasets, overcoming limitations of analysis tools with hard-coded parameters that often produce poorly resolved or misleading maps of fluorescent and mass cytometry data. In summary, opt-SNE enables superior data resolution in t-SNE space and thereby more accurate data interpretation.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyDatasets as TopicData VisualizationFlow CytometryGene Expression ProfilingAnimalsAutomationHumansMachine LearningMiceNonlinear DynamicsPrincipal Component Analysis

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PMID31780669
PMCPMC6882880

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