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ArticleGenome biology2025

scPDA: denoising protein expression in droplet-based single-cell data.

Ouyang Zhu, Jun Li

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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 1 paper.

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Ouyang ZhuDepartment of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA.
Jun LiDepartment of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA. jun.li@nd.edu.

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Immunosuppression and Metabolic Rewiring in Tumor-infiltrating NeutrophilsR01CA280097 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI Xin Lu · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA280097NIH HHS R01CA280097U.S. Department of Defense W81XWH2110432
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Droplet-based profiling techniques such as CITE-seq are often contaminated by technical noise. Current computational denoising methods have serious limitations, including a strong reliance on often-unavailable empty droplets or null controls and insufficient efficiency due to ignoring protein-protein interactions. Here, we introduce scPDA, a probabilistic model that employs a variational autoencoder to achieve high computational efficiency. scPDA eliminates the use of empty droplets and shares information across proteins to increase denoising efficiency. Compared to currently available methods, scPDA substantially improves the efficiency of gating-strategy-based cell-type identification, marking a clear advancement in computational denoising of the protein modality.

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Computational BiologyProteinsSingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsHumansProteins

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