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ArticleMolecular systems biology2021

Probabilistic harmonization and annotation of single-cell transcriptomics data with deep generative models.

Chenling Xu, Romain Lopez, Edouard Mehlman, Jeffrey Regier, Michael I Jordan, Nir Yosef

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 454 papers.

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Chenling XuCenter for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9610-7627
Romain LopezDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0495-738X
Edouard MehlmanDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6351-2220
Jeffrey RegierDepartment of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1472-5235
Michael I JordanDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8935-817X
Nir YosefCenter for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9004-1225

Funding

Tool and Technology Development CoreU19MH114821 · NIMH · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI HUANG, Z JOSH · 2017 to 2021
$64.5M
Systems Biological Analysis of Innate and Adaptive Responses to VaccinationU19AI090023 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI AHMED, RAFI, LI, SHUZHAO · 2010 to 2021
$45.0M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI090023NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH114821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the number of single-cell transcriptomics datasets grows, the natural next step is to integrate the accumulating data to achieve a common ontology of cell types and states. However, it is not straightforward to compare gene expression levels across datasets and to automatically assign cell type labels in a new dataset based on existing annotations. In this manuscript, we demonstrate that our previously developed method, scVI, provides an effective and fully probabilistic approach for joint representation and analysis of scRNA-seq data, while accounting for uncertainty caused by biological and measurement noise. We also introduce single-cell ANnotation using Variational Inference (scANVI), a semi-supervised variant of scVI designed to leverage existing cell state annotations. We demonstrate that scVI and scANVI compare favorably to state-of-the-art methods for data integration and cell state annotation in terms of accuracy, scalability, and adaptability to challenging settings. In contrast to existing methods, scVI and scANVI integrate multiple datasets with a single generative model that can be directly used for downstream tasks, such as differential expression. Both methods are easily accessible through scvi-tools.

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Computational BiologyDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSupervised Machine Learningannotationdifferential expressionharmonizationscRNA-seqvariational inference

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PMID33491336
PMCPMC7829634

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