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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

Topological benchmarking of algorithms to infer gene regulatory networks from single-cell RNA-seq data.

Marco Stock, Niclas Popp, Jonathan Fiorentino, Antonio Scialdone

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Marco StockInstitute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich 81377, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9485-1217
Niclas PoppInstitute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich 81377, Germany.
Jonathan FiorentinoInstitute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich 81377, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2096-3210
Antonio ScialdoneInstitute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich 81377, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4956-2843

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Helmholtz AssociationJoachim Herz Stiftung Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science
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Abstract

motivationIn recent years, many algorithms for inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell transcriptomic data have been published. Several studies have evaluated their accuracy in estimating the presence of an interaction between pairs of genes. However, these benchmarking analyses do not quantify the algorithms' ability to capture structural properties of networks, which are fundamental, e.g., for studying the robustness of a gene network to external perturbations. Here, we devise a three-step benchmarking pipeline called STREAMLINE that quantifies the ability of algorithms to capture topological properties of networks and identify hubs.

resultsTo this aim, we use data simulated from different types of networks as well as experimental data from three different organisms. We apply our benchmarking pipeline to four inference algorithms and provide guidance on which algorithm should be used depending on the global network property of interest. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: STREAMLINE is available at https://github.com/ScialdoneLab/STREAMLINE. The data generated in this study are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10710444.

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AlgorithmsBenchmarkingGene Regulatory NetworksRNA-SeqSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingHumansSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisSoftware

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