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ArticleNature communications2024

Semi-supervised integration of single-cell transcriptomics data.

Massimo Andreatta, Léonard Hérault, Paul Gueguen, David Gfeller, Ariel J Berenstein, Santiago J Carmona

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Massimo AndreattaDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CHUV and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8036-2647
Léonard HéraultDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CHUV and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6499-2991
Paul GueguenDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CHUV and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2930-6073
David GfellerDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CHUV and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3952-0930
Ariel J BerensteinLaboratorio de Biología Molecular, División Patología, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Investigaciones en Patologías Pediátricas (IMIPP), CONICET-GCBA, Buenos Aires, C1425EFD, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-8540-5389
Santiago J CarmonaDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CHUV and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland. santiago.carmona@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-2495-0671

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 180010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Batch effects in single-cell RNA-seq data pose a significant challenge for comparative analyses across samples, individuals, and conditions. Although batch effect correction methods are routinely applied, data integration often leads to overcorrection and can result in the loss of biological variability. In this work we present STACAS, a batch correction method for scRNA-seq that leverages prior knowledge on cell types to preserve biological variability upon integration. Through an open-source benchmark, we show that semi-supervised STACAS outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised methods, as well as supervised methods such as scANVI and scGen. STACAS scales well to large datasets and is robust to incomplete and imprecise input cell type labels, which are commonly encountered in real-life integration tasks. We argue that the incorporation of prior cell type information should be a common practice in single-cell data integration, and we provide a flexible framework for semi-supervised batch effect correction.

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Gene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell AnalysisHumansSequence Analysis, RNA

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PMID38287014
PMCPMC10825117

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