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Optimal marker gene selection for cell type discrimination in single cell analyses

Author(s): Dumitrascu, Bianca; Villar, Soledad; Mixon, Dustin; Engelhardt, Barbara E

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Abstract: Single-cell technologies characterize complex cell populations across multiple data modalities at unprecedented scale and resolution. Multi-omic data for single cell gene expression, in situ hybridization, or single cell chromatin states are increasingly available across diverse tissue types. When isolating specific cell types from a sample of disassociated cells or performing in situ sequencing in collections of heterogeneous cells, one challenging task is to select a small set of informative markers that robustly enable the identification and discrimination of specific cell types or cell states as precisely as possible. Given single cell RNA-seq data and a set of cellular labels to discriminate, scGeneFit selects gene markers that jointly optimize cell label recovery using label-aware compressive classification methods. This results in a substantially more robust and less redundant set of markers than existing methods, most of which identify markers that separate each cell label from the rest. When applied to a data set given a hierarchy of cell types as labels, the markers found by our method improves the recovery of the cell type hierarchy with fewer markers than existing methods using a computationally efficient and principled optimization.
Publication Date: 2021
Citation: Dumitrascu, Bianca, Soledad Villar, Dustin G. Mixon, and Barbara E. Engelhardt. "Optimal marker gene selection for cell type discrimination in single cell analyses." Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (2021). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21453-4
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21453-4
ISSN: 2041-1723
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: Nature Communications
Version: Final published version. This is an open access article.



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