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ArticleGenome biology2019

scPred: accurate supervised method for cell-type classification from single-cell RNA-seq data.

Jose Alquicira-Hernandez, Anuja Sathe, Hanlee P Ji, Quan Nguyen, Joseph E Powell

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Article in Genome biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 265 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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

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5 authors.

Jose Alquicira-HernandezGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. j.alquicira@garvan.org.au.
Anuja SatheDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.
Hanlee P JiDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.
Quan NguyenInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Joseph E PowellGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. j.powell@garvan.org.au.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing has enabled the characterization of highly specific cell types in many tissues, as well as both primary and stem cell-derived cell lines. An important facet of these studies is the ability to identify the transcriptional signatures that define a cell type or state. In theory, this information can be used to classify an individual cell based on its transcriptional profile. Here, we present scPred, a new generalizable method that is able to provide highly accurate classification of single cells, using a combination of unbiased feature selection from a reduced-dimension space, and machine-learning probability-based prediction method. We apply scPred to scRNA-seq data from pancreatic tissue, mononuclear cells, colorectal tumor biopsies, and circulating dendritic cells and show that scPred is able to classify individual cells with high accuracy. The generalized method is available at https://github.com/powellgenomicslab/scPred/.

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Sequence Analysis, RNAClassificationDendritic CellsSingle-Cell AnalysisStomach Neoplasms

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PMID31829268
PMCPMC6907144

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