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ArticleGenome biology2024

VI-VS: calibrated identification of feature dependencies in single-cell multiomics.

Pierre Boyeau, Stephen Bates, Can Ergen, Michael I Jordan, Nir Yosef

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Article in Genome biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Pierre BoyeauDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Stephen BatesDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Can ErgenDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Michael I JordanDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Nir YosefDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA. niryosef@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9004-1225

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unveiling functional relationships between various molecular cell phenotypes from data using machine learning models is a key promise of multiomics. Existing methods either use flexible but hard-to-interpret models or simpler, misspecified models. VI-VS (Variational Inference for Variable Selection) balances flexibility and interpretability to identify relevant feature relationships in multiomic data. It uses deep generative models to identify conditionally dependent features, with false discovery rate control. VI-VS is available as an open-source Python package, providing a robust solution to identify features more likely representing genuine causal relationships.

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Single-Cell AnalysisSoftwareGenomicsHumansMachine LearningMultiomics

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PMID39548591
PMCPMC11566124

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