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ArticleQuantitative biology (Beijing, China)2026

MIGC: Pseudotime differentially expressed genes detection with mutual information.

Jiachen Li, Ye Yuan

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Article in Quantitative biology (Beijing, China), 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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Jiachen LiState Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Preparation and Delivery Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
Ye YuanState Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Preparation and Delivery Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.

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Trajectory analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data provides insights into cell differentiation and the underlying mechanisms at the gene level. Although various pseudotime inference methods have been proposed, the detection of pseudotime differentially expressed genes (DEGs) mainly relies on generalized additive model fitting followed by statistical hypothesis testing. However, considering that pseudotime inference is a prerequisite for pseudotime DEG detection, it would be beneficial to unify them into an integrated framework. Inspired by the concepts of information theory, we propose a trajectory analysis strategy called MIGC by capturing the mutual information between genes and cells, which can not only accurately infer cell pseudotime but also identify pseudotime DEGs. Experiments on multiple scRNA-seq datasets demonstrate that MIGC offers an effective trajectory analysis pipeline that outperforms baseline approaches in detecting pseudotime DEGs.

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DEG detectionpseudotime analysisscRNA‐seq analysis

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