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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021

Inference of Gene Regulatory Network from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data Using pySCENIC.

Nilesh Kumar, Bharat Mishra, Mohammad Athar, Shahid Mukhtar

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 74 papers.

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4 authors.

Nilesh KumarDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Bharat MishraDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Mohammad AtharDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Shahid MukhtarDepartment of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. smukhtar@uab.edu.

Funding

UAB Research Center of Excellence in ArsenicalsU54ES030246 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ATHAR, MOHAMMAD · 2018 to 2022
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NIEHS NIH HHS U54 ES030246
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of recent next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies in genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics, profiling single-cell sequencing became possible. The single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is widely used to characterize diverse cell populations and ascertain cell type-specific regulatory mechanisms. The gene regulatory network (GRN) mainly consists of genes and their regulators-transcription factors (TF). Here, we describe the lightning-fast Python implementation of the SCENIC (Single-Cell reEgulatory Network Inference and Clustering) pipeline called pySCENIC. Using single-cell RNA-seq data, it maps TFs onto gene regulatory networks and integrates various cell types to infer cell-specific GRNs. There are two fast and efficient GRN inference algorithms, GRNBoost2 and GENIE3, optionally available with pySCENIC. The pipeline has three steps: (1) identification of potential TF targets based on co-expression; (2) TF-motif enrichment analysis to identify the direct targets (regulons); and (3) scoring the activity of regulons (or other gene sets) on single cell types.

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AlgorithmsAmino Acid MotifsCluster AnalysisGene Regulatory NetworksProgramming LanguagesRNA-SeqSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscription FactorsTranscription FactorsGene co-expression networkGene regulatory networkRNA-Seq count datascRNA-seq

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