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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

scDEcrypter: Uncertainty-aware differential expression analysis for viral infection in scRNA-seq.

Luer Zhong, Karl Ensberg, Scott Tibbets, Aaron J Molstad, Rhonda Bacher

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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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Luer ZhongDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Karl EnsbergDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Scott TibbetsDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Aaron J MolstadSchool of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Rhonda BacherDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5787-476X

Funding

"Project 3" MHV68 IncRNA/miRNA interaction in latency and lympomagenesisP01CA214091 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Scott A. Tibbetts · 2017 to 2026
$15.9M
Role of MHV68 miRNAs in latencyand pathogenesisR01AI108407 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI TIBBETTS, SCOTT A. · 2015 to 2019
$2.0M
Resolving single-cell analysis challenges via data-driven decision frameworks and novel statistical methodsR35GM146895 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Rhonda Bacher · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA214091NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI108407NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM146895
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA-seq studies of viral infection are limited by sparse viral reads, under-labeled infected cells, and bystander responses that confound differential expression (DE) analysis. We introduce scDEcrypter, a penalized two-way mixture model that leverages partial labels for infection status and additional variables such as cell type. Our approach employs data-splitting to avoid double-dipping and enables fast, likelihood-based inference for DE analysis. Through simulations and applications on two different viral infection datasets, scDEcrypter demonstrated improved recovery of infected cell states and identified more biologically coherent infection-associated genes and enriched pathways.

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