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Single-cell reference atlases are large-scale, cell-level maps that capture cellular heterogeneity within an organ using single cell genomics. Given their size and cellular diversity, these atlases serve as high-quality training data for…

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A critical challenge in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) integration is resolving the tension between eliminating batch effects and maintaining biological fidelity. While recent evidence indicates that batch effects manifest…

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Background: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables gene expression profiling at cellular resolution but is inherently affected by sparsity caused by dropout events, where expressed genes are recorded as zeros due to technical…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-15 Yuichiro Iwashita , Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi , Koichi Kise , Andreas Dengel , Muhammad Nabeel Asim

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides insights into gene expression at single-cell resolution, yet inferring temporal processes from these static snapshot measurements remains a fundamental challenge. Current approaches utilizing neural…

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Human placenta is a complex and heterogeneous organ interfacing between the mother and the fetus that supports fetal development. Alterations to placental structural components are associated with various pregnancy complications. To reveal…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-11 Hui Li , Qianhui Huang , Yu Liu , Lana X Garmire

Understanding gene perturbation effects across diverse cellular contexts is a central challenge in functional genomics, with important implications for therapeutic discovery and precision medicine. Single-cell technologies enable…

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Gene regulation is a dynamic process that connects genotype and phenotype. Given the difficulty of physically mapping mammalian gene circuitry, we require new computational methods to learn regulatory rules. Natural language is a valuable…

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Most cellular phenotypes are genetically complex. Identifying the set of genes that are most closely associated with a specific cellular state is still an open question in many cases. Here we study the transcriptional profile of cellular…

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Metacells are disjoint and homogeneous groups of single-cell profiles, representing discrete and highly granular cell states. Existing metacell algorithms tend to use only one modality to infer metacells, even though single-cell multi-omics…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Haiyi Mao , Minxue Jia , Jason Xiaotian Dou , Haotian Zhang , Panayiotis V. Benos

Single-cell technologies offer insights into molecular feature distributions, but comparing them poses challenges. We propose a kernel-testing framework for non-linear cell-wise distribution comparison, analyzing gene expression and…

Single-cell multi-view clustering enables the exploration of cellular heterogeneity within the same cell from different views. Despite the development of several multi-view clustering methods, two primary challenges persist. Firstly, most…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Dayu Hu , Zhibin Dong , Ke Liang , Jun Wang , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu

For the vast majority of genes in sequenced genomes, there is limited understanding of how they are regulated. Without such knowledge, it is not possible to perform a quantitative theory-experiment dialogue on how such genes give rise to…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-07 Rosalind Wenshan Pan , Tom Roeschinger , Kian Faizi , Hernan Garcia , Rob Phillips

Single-cell multi-omics (scMulti-omics) refers to the paired multimodal data, such as Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by Sequencing (CITE-seq), where the regulation of each cell was measured from different modalities, i.e.…

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New experimental methods make it possible to measure the expression levels of many genes, simultaneously, in snapshots from thousands or even millions of individual cells. Current approaches to analyze these experiments involve clustering…

With the advance of experimental techniques such as time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, the availability of single-cell trajectory data has vastly increased, and so has the demand for computational methods suitable for parameter inference…

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data are important for studying the laws of life at single-cell level. However, it is still challenging to obtain enough high-quality scRNA-seq data. To mitigate the limited availability of data,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-06 Erpai Luo , Minsheng Hao , Lei Wei , Xuegong Zhang

Ultra high-throughput sequencing of transcriptomes (RNA-Seq) is a widely used method for quantifying gene expression levels due to its low cost, high accuracy and wide dynamic range for detection. However, the nature of RNA-Seq makes it…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-30 Hui Jiang , Tianyu Zhan

The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics has revolutionized our capacity to investigate cellular properties, functions, and interactions in both cellular and spatial contexts. However, the analysis of single-cell and…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-09 Shuang Ge , Shuqing Sun , Huan Xu , Qiang Cheng , Zhixiang Ren

Advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have led to significant progress in measuring gene expressions at the single-cell level. The amount of publicly available single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data is already surpassing 50M…

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) frameworks lack explainable approaches for identifying cell subpopulations harboring strong pairwise monotonic gene-module relationships between a gene of interest (GOI) and its co-expressed genes.…

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