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ArticleCell reports methods2023

Graph embedding and Gaussian mixture variational autoencoder network for end-to-end analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data.

Junlin Xu, Jielin Xu, Yajie Meng, Changcheng Lu, Lijun Cai, Xiangxiang Zeng, Ruth Nussinov, Feixiong Cheng

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Junlin XuCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Jielin XuGenomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Yajie MengCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Changcheng LuCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Lijun CaiCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Xiangxiang ZengCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Ruth NussinovComputational Structural Biology Section, Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Feixiong ChengGenomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Hunan University · CNCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine · USTel Aviv University · IL

Funding

NCI NIH HHS HHSN261201500003CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261201500003I
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a revolutionary technology to determine the precise gene expression of individual cells and identify cell heterogeneity and subpopulations. However, technical limitations of scRNA-seq lead to heterogeneous and sparse data. Here, we present autoCell, a deep-learning approach for scRNA-seq dropout imputation and feature extraction. autoCell is a variational autoencoding network that combines graph embedding and a probabilistic depth Gaussian mixture model to infer the distribution of high-dimensional, sparse scRNA-seq data. We validate autoCell on simulated datasets and biologically relevant scRNA-seq. We show that interpolation of autoCell improves the performance of existing tools in identifying cell developmental trajectories of human preimplantation embryos. We identify disease-associated astrocytes (DAAs) and reconstruct DAA-specific molecular networks and ligand-receptor interactions involved in cell-cell communications using Alzheimer's disease as a prototypical example. autoCell provides a toolbox for end-to-end analysis of scRNA-seq data, including visualization, clustering, imputation, and disease-specific gene network identification.

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Antiviral AgentsSingle-Cell AnalysisGene Regulatory NetworksHumansModels, StatisticalSequence Analysis, RNAAntiviral AgentsAlzheimer’s diseasedeep learningdisease-associated astrocytescRNA-seqsingle cell/nucleivariational autoencoding network

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PMID36814845
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