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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

PseudotimeDE-fast: fast testing of differential gene expression along cell pseudotime.

Yuheng Lai, Dongyuan Song, Lucy Xia, Jingyi Jessica Li

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yuheng LaiDepartment of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
Dongyuan SongDepartment of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-6403, United States.
Lucy XiaDepartment of ISOM, School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong.
Jingyi Jessica LiDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9288-5648

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Statistical Methods for Elucidating Regulatory Mechanisms and Functional Impacts of Transcriptome Variation at Population and Single-Cell ScalesR35GM140888 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LI, JINGYI JESSICA · 2021 to 2025
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor Advised FundNational Science Foundation DBI-1846216National Science Foundation DMS-2113754NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM140888Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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Abstract

summaryIdentifying differentially expressed (DE) genes along cell pseudotime is crucial for understanding dynamic biological processes captured by single-cell RNA sequencing. However, existing DE methods either produce invalid P-values by ignoring the uncertainty in pseudotime inference or struggle to scale with the growing size of modern datasets. To address these limitations, we introduce PseudotimeDE-fast, a scalable method for detecting DE genes along pseudotime with well-calibrated P-values. Through comprehensive simulations and real-data analyses, we demonstrate that PseudotimeDE-fast delivers comparable or superior performance to existing approaches while offering substantial improvements in computational efficiency. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PseudotimeDE-fast is implemented in R with Rcpp acceleration and released under the MIT license. The source code is available at: https://github.com/dsong-lab/PseudotimeDE.

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