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ArticleNature communications2020

A multiresolution framework to characterize single-cell state landscapes.

Shahin Mohammadi, Jose Davila-Velderrain, Manolis Kellis

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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 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shahin MohammadiMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. mohammadi@broadinstitute.org.ORCID 0000-0001-8734-2326
Jose Davila-VelderrainMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. jdavilav@mit.edu.
Manolis KellisMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. manoli@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7113-9630

Funding

Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG062335 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KELLIS, MANOLIS, TSAI, LI-HUEI · 2018 to 2022
$6.5M
Single-cell transcriptional and epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer's Disease and Related DementiasU01NS110453 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KELLIS, MANOLIS, TSAI, LI-HUEI · 2018 to 2020
$4.0M
Cell type specific epigenetic analysis to understand complex mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease phenotypesRF1AG054012 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KELLIS, MANOLIS, TSAI, LI-HUEI · 2016 to 2016
$3.9M
Single Cell Transcriptional and Epigenomic Dissection of Schizophrenia and Bipoloar DiseaseU01MH119509 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KELLIS, MANOLIS · 2019 to 2019
$625k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG062335NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG054012NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH119509NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS110453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dissecting the cellular heterogeneity embedded in single-cell transcriptomic data is challenging. Although many methods and approaches exist, identifying cell states and their underlying topology is still a major challenge. Here, we introduce the concept of multiresolution cell-state decomposition as a practical approach to simultaneously capture both fine- and coarse-grain patterns of variability. We implement this concept in ACTIONet, a comprehensive framework that combines archetypal analysis and manifold learning to provide a ready-to-use analytical approach for multiresolution single-cell state characterization. ACTIONet provides a robust, reproducible, and highly interpretable single-cell analysis platform that couples dominant pattern discovery with a corresponding structural representation of the cell state landscape. Using multiple synthetic and real data sets, we demonstrate ACTIONet's superior performance relative to existing alternatives. We use ACTIONet to integrate and annotate cells across three human cortex data sets. Through integrative comparative analysis, we define a consensus vocabulary and a consistent set of gene signatures discriminating against the transcriptomic cell types and subtypes of the human prefrontal cortex.

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CellsComputational BiologyHumansPrefrontal CortexSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptome

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