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ArticleNature communications2020

Single-cell lineage tracing by integrating CRISPR-Cas9 mutations with transcriptomic data.

Hamim Zafar, Chieh Lin, Ziv Bar-Joseph

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hamim Zafar *Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
Chieh Lin *Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Ziv Bar-JosephComputational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. zivbj@cs.cmu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3430-6051

Funding

Comprehensive, Flexible and FAIR Tools for the HuBMAP HIVEOT2OD026682 · OD · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI PATEN, BENEDICT, RUFFALO, MATTHEW · 2018 to 2021
$3.4M
Reconstructing regulatory networks from time series single cell dataR01GM122096 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI BAR-JOSEPH, ZIV · 2017 to 2020
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122096NIH HHS OT2 OD026682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies combine two novel technologies, single-cell RNA-sequencing and CRISPR-Cas9 barcode editing for elucidating developmental lineages at the whole organism level. While these studies provided several insights, they face several computational challenges. First, lineages are reconstructed based on noisy and often saturated random mutation data. Additionally, due to the randomness of the mutations, lineages from multiple experiments cannot be combined to reconstruct a species-invariant lineage tree. To address these issues we developed a statistical method, LinTIMaT, which reconstructs cell lineages using a maximum-likelihood framework by integrating mutation and expression data. Our analysis shows that expression data helps resolve the ambiguities arising in when lineages are inferred based on mutations alone, while also enabling the integration of different individual lineages for the reconstruction of an invariant lineage tree. LinTIMaT lineages have better cell type coherence, improve the functional significance of gene sets and provide new insights on progenitors and differentiation pathways.

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AlgorithmsCRISPR-Cas SystemsAnimalsBrainCaenorhabditis elegansCell DifferentiationCell LineageData Interpretation, StatisticalEmbryo, NonmammalianGene Expression ProfilingLikelihood FunctionsMutationSingle-Cell AnalysisZebrafish

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PMID32546686
PMCPMC7298005

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