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ArticleBiostatistics (Oxford, England)2025

Model-based dimensionality reduction for single-cell RNA-seq using generalized bilinear models.

Phillip B Nicol, Jeffrey W Miller

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Article in Biostatistics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Phillip B NicolDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8526-5889
Jeffrey W MillerDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States.

Funding

Training Grant in Quantitative Sciences for Cancer ResearchT32CA009337 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI QUACKENBUSH, JOHN, TRIPPA, LORENZO · 1986 to 2025
$12.3M
Statistical methods for cancer genomics and cell-free DNA analysisR01CA240299 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI MILLER, JEFFREY WAYNE · 2020 to 2024
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA240299NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009337NIH HHS 5R01CA240299NIH HHS T32CA009337
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dimensionality reduction is a critical step in the analysis of single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data. The standard approach is to apply a transformation to the count matrix followed by principal components analysis (PCA). However, this approach can induce spurious heterogeneity and mask true biological variability. An alternative approach is to directly model the counts, but existing methods tend to be computationally intractable on large datasets and do not quantify uncertainty in the low-dimensional representation. To address these problems, we develop scGBM, a novel method for model-based dimensionality reduction of scRNA-seq data using a Poisson bilinear model. We introduce a fast estimation algorithm to fit the model using iteratively reweighted singular value decompositions, enabling the method to scale to datasets with millions of cells. Furthermore, scGBM quantifies the uncertainty in each cell's latent position and leverages these uncertainties to assess the confidence associated with a given cell clustering. On real and simulated single-cell data, we find that scGBM produces low-dimensional embeddings that better capture relevant biological information while removing unwanted variation.

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Models, StatisticalRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisAlgorithmsComputer SimulationDimensionality ReductionHumansLinear ModelsSingle-Cell Gene Expression Analysisdimension reductiongeneralized linear modelsingle-cell RNA-sequencing

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PMID40795862
PMCPMC12342792

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