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ArticleGenome biology2020

scAI: an unsupervised approach for the integrative analysis of parallel single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles.

Suoqin Jin, Lihua Zhang, Qing Nie

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Article in Genome biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Suoqin JinDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Lihua ZhangDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Qing NieDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. qnie@uci.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8804-3368

Funding

UCI P30 Skin Center Systems Biology CoreP30AR075047 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI ANDERSEN, BOGI, GANESAN, ANAND K · 2019 to 2025
$5.1M
Multiscale Models of Wound Cell Plasticity for RegenerationU01AR073159 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAI, XING, NIE, QING · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Mammary basal/stem cell plasticity and regulationR01GM123731 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAI, XING · 2017 to 2020
$1.9M
NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR075047NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR073159NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123731NIH HHS U01AR073159, R01GM123731,P30AR07504
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Simultaneous measurements of transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles in the same individual cells provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand cell fates. However, effective approaches for the integrative analysis of such data are lacking. Here, we present a single-cell aggregation and integration (scAI) method to deconvolute cellular heterogeneity from parallel transcriptomic and epigenomic profiles. Through iterative learning, scAI aggregates sparse epigenomic signals in similar cells learned in an unsupervised manner, allowing coherent fusion with transcriptomic measurements. Simulation studies and applications to three real datasets demonstrate its capability of dissecting cellular heterogeneity within both transcriptomic and epigenomic layers and understanding transcriptional regulatory mechanisms.

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EpigenomeTranscriptomeUnsupervised Machine LearningA549 CellsGene Expression ProfilingGenetic HeterogeneityGenomicsHumansSingle-Cell AnalysisIntegrative analysisSimultaneous measurementsSingle-cell multiomicsSparse epigenomic profile

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PMID32014031
PMCPMC6996200

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