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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2023

Self-supervised deep clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data to hierarchically detect rare cell populations.

Tianyuan Lei, Ruoyu Chen, Shaoqiang Zhang, Yong Chen

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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Tianyuan LeiCollege of Computer and Information Engineering, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
Ruoyu ChenMoorestown High School, Moorestown, NJ 08057, USA.
Shaoqiang ZhangCollege of Computer and Information Engineering, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4127-0539
Yong ChenDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Rowan University, NJ 08028, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6827-4321

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Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a widely used technique for characterizing individual cells and studying gene expression at the single-cell level. Clustering plays a vital role in grouping similar cells together for various downstream analyses. However, the high sparsity and dimensionality of large scRNA-seq data pose challenges to clustering performance. Although several deep learning-based clustering algorithms have been proposed, most existing clustering methods have limitations in capturing the precise distribution types of the data or fully utilizing the relationships between cells, leaving a considerable scope for improving the clustering performance, particularly in detecting rare cell populations from large scRNA-seq data. We introduce DeepScena, a novel single-cell hierarchical clustering tool that fully incorporates nonlinear dimension reduction, negative binomial-based convolutional autoencoder for data fitting, and a self-supervision model for cell similarity enhancement. In comprehensive evaluation using multiple large-scale scRNA-seq datasets, DeepScena consistently outperformed seven popular clustering tools in terms of accuracy. Notably, DeepScena exhibits high proficiency in identifying rare cell populations within large datasets that contain large numbers of clusters. When applied to scRNA-seq data of multiple myeloma cells, DeepScena successfully identified not only previously labeled large cell types but also subpopulations in CD14 monocytes, T cells and natural killer cells, respectively.

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Single-Cell AnalysisSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisGene Expression ProfilingSequence Analysis, RNAcell clusteringdeep learningscRNA-seqself-supervised training

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PMCPMC10539043

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