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ArticleCell genomics2025

Single-cell and spatial detection of senescent cells using DeepScence.

Yilong Qu, Beijie Ji, Runze Dong, Liangcai Gu, Cliburn Chan, Jichun Xie, Carolyn Glass, Xiao-Fan Wang, Andrew B Nixon, Zhicheng Ji

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Article in Cell genomics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Yilong QuDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Beijie JiDepartment of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Runze DongDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Liangcai GuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Cliburn ChanDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Jichun XieDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Carolyn GlassDepartment of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Xiao-Fan WangDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Andrew B NixonDepartment of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Zhicheng JiDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: zhicheng.ji@duke.edu.

Funding

The Duke Senescent Cell Evaluations in Normal Tissues (SCENT) Mapping CenterU54AG075936 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAN, CLIBURN C · 2021 to 2025
$12.7M
PIXEL-seq-based spatial, multi-omic profiling for senescent cell mapping with single-cell resolutionUH3CA268096 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI GU, LIANGCAI · 2023 to 2024
$1.7M
Computational methods for in situ spatial transcriptomicsR35GM154865 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Zhicheng Ji · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA268096NIA NIH HHS U54 AG075936NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurately identifying senescent cells is essential for studying their spatial and molecular features. We developed DeepScence, a method based on deep neural networks, to identify senescent cells in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. DeepScence is based on CoreScence, a senescence-associated gene set we curated that incorporates information from multiple published gene sets. We demonstrate that DeepScence can accurately identify senescent cells in single-cell gene expression data collected both in vitro and in vivo, as well as in spatial transcriptomics data generated by different platforms, substantially outperforming existing methods.

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Cellular SenescenceSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingHumansMiceNeural Networks, ComputerTranscriptomeagingcellular senescencemachine learningscRNA-seqsenescence gene setsenescence identificationspatial transcriptomics

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PMCPMC12802646

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