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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Infusing structural assumptions into dimensionality reduction for single-cell RNA sequencing data to identify small gene sets.

Maren Hackenberg, Niklas Brunn, Tanja Vogel, Harald Binder

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Maren Hackenberg *Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI), Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. maren.hackenberg@uniklinik-freiburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4403-634X
Niklas Brunn *Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI), Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. niklas.brunn@uniklinik-freiburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-8246-1549
Tanja VogelInstitute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department Molecular Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0602-9133
Harald BinderInstitute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (IMBI), Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dimensionality reduction greatly facilitates the exploration of cellular heterogeneity in single-cell RNA sequencing data. While most of such approaches are data-driven, it can be useful to incorporate biologically plausible assumptions about the underlying structure or the experimental design. We propose the boosting autoencoder (BAE) approach, which combines the advantages of unsupervised deep learning for dimensionality reduction and boosting for formalizing assumptions. Specifically, our approach selects small sets of genes that explain latent dimensions. As illustrative applications, we explore the diversity of neural cell identities and temporal patterns of embryonic development.

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Sequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsAnimalsDeep LearningDimensionality ReductionGene Expression ProfilingHumans

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PMID40069486
PMCPMC11897155

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