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Pseudotime graph diffusion for post hoc visualization of inferred single-cell trajectories.

Brandon Lukas, Jingbo Pang, Timothy J Koh, Yang Dai

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. 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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Brandon LukasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6093-8290
Jingbo PangDepartment of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Timothy J KohDepartment of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Yang DaiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7638-849X

Funding

Coordinating and Bioinformatics Unit for the MMPC/DiaCompU24DK076169 · NIDDK · AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY · PI MCINDOE, RICHARD A. · 2006 to 2018
$42.4M
Coordinating Unit for DiaCompU24DK115255 · NIDDK · AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY · PI MCINDOE, RICHARD A. · 2017 to 2020
$11.6M
Macrophage Phenotypes and Tissue RepairR35GM136228 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI TIMOTHY J KOH · 2020 to 2026
$3.7M
NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK076169NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK115255NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136228
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Abstract

Visual representations are widely used to interpret trajectories in single-cell data; however, they do not always faithfully capture inferred trajectory structure. As a result, interpretation of cellular dynamics and downstream analyses may be compromised. Here, we present Pseudotime Graph Diffusion (PGD), a lightweight and interpretable post hoc framework for smoothing cell-level features along pseudotime. PGD operates by performing random-walk diffusion on a pseudotime graph, propagating information along inferred trajectory paths to enhance continuity and structure. We demonstrate that PGD-smoothed embeddings improve visualization of increasingly complex inferred trajectories of monocytes and macrophages during wound healing. We further show that PGD extends naturally to trajectory-aware gene expression smoothing. By improving agreement between visual representations and inferred trajectories, PGD enables more faithful interpretation of dynamic cellular processes.

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biological processesgraph theoryinformation diffusionMarkov processesRNAsmoothing methods

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