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ArticleGenome biology2025

scVAEDer: integrating deep diffusion models and variational autoencoders for single-cell transcriptomics analysis.

Mehrshad Sadria, Anita Layton

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Article in Genome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Mehrshad SadriaDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. msadria@uwaterloo.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9874-9930
Anita LaytonDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

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National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2019-03916
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discovering a lower-dimensional embedding of single-cell data can improve downstream analysis. The embedding should encapsulate both the high-level features and low-level variations. While existing generative models attempt to learn such low-dimensional representations, they have limitations. Here, we introduce scVAEDer, a scalable deep-learning model that combines the power of variational autoencoders and deep diffusion models to learn a meaningful representation that retains both global structure and local variations. Using the learned embeddings, scVAEDer can generate novel scRNA-seq data, predict perturbation response on various cell types, identify changes in gene expression during dedifferentiation, and detect master regulators in biological processes.

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Deep LearningGene Expression ProfilingSingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareTranscriptomeAutoencoderHumans

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PMID40119479
PMCPMC11927372

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