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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2021

Manifold alignment for heterogeneous single-cell multi-omics data integration using Pamona.

Kai Cao, Yiguang Hong, Lin Wan

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3 authors.

Kai CaoLSC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Yiguang HongLSC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Lin WanLSC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3511-0512

Funding

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and LSC of CASNational Key R&D Program of China 2019YFA0709501National Natural Science Foundation of China 61733018Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major 2021SHZDZX010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationSingle-cell multi-omics sequencing data can provide a comprehensive molecular view of cells. However, effective approaches for the integrative analysis of such data are challenging. Existing manifold alignment methods demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance on single-cell multi-omics data integration, but they are often limited by requiring that single-cell datasets be derived from the same underlying cellular structure.

resultsIn this study, we present Pamona, a partial Gromov-Wasserstein distance-based manifold alignment framework that integrates heterogeneous single-cell multi-omics datasets with the aim of delineating and representing the shared and dataset-specific cellular structures across modalities. We formulate this task as a partial manifold alignment problem and develop a partial Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport framework to solve it. Pamona identifies both shared and dataset-specific cells based on the computed probabilistic couplings of cells across datasets, and it aligns cellular modalities in a common low-dimensional space, while simultaneously preserving both shared and dataset-specific structures. Our framework can easily incorporate prior information, such as cell type annotations or cell-cell correspondence, to further improve alignment quality. We evaluated Pamona on a comprehensive set of publicly available benchmark datasets. We demonstrated that Pamona can accurately identify shared and dataset-specific cells, as well as faithfully recover and align cellular structures of heterogeneous single-cell modalities in a common space, outperforming the comparable existing methods. AVAILABILITYAND IMPLEMENTATION: Pamona software is available at https://github.com/caokai1073/Pamona. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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