UniPath : a uniform approach for pathway and gene-set based analysis of heterogeneity in single-cell epigenome and transcriptome profiles

© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research..

Recent advances in single-cell open-chromatin and transcriptome profiling have created a challenge of exploring novel applications with a meaningful transformation of read-counts, which often have high variability in noise and drop-out among cells. Here, we introduce UniPath, for representing single-cells using pathway and gene-set enrichment scores by a transformation of their open-chromatin or gene-expression profiles. The robust statistical approach of UniPath provides high accuracy, consistency and scalability in estimating gene-set enrichment scores for every cell. Its framework provides an easy solution for handling variability in drop-out rate, which can sometimes create artefact due to systematic patterns. UniPath provides an alternative approach of dimension reduction of single-cell open-chromatin profiles. UniPath's approach of predicting temporal-order of single-cells using their pathway enrichment scores enables suppression of covariates to achieve correct order of cells. Analysis of mouse cell atlas using our approach yielded surprising, albeit biologically-meaningful co-clustering of cell-types from distant organs. By enabling an unconventional method of exploiting pathway co-occurrence to compare two groups of cells, our approach also proves to be useful in inferring context-specific regulations in cancer cells. Available at https://reggenlab.github.io/UniPathWeb/.

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ErratumIn: Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Feb 22;49(3):1801. - PMID 33450029

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

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Nucleic acids research - 49(2021), 3 vom: 22. Feb., Seite e13

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chawla, Smriti [VerfasserIn]
Samydurai, Sudhagar [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Say Li [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Zhengwei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhenxun [VerfasserIn]
Tam, Wai Leong [VerfasserIn]
Sengupta, Debarka [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Vibhor [VerfasserIn]

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Chromatin
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 03.03.2021

Date Revised 03.03.2021

published: Print

ErratumIn: Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Feb 22;49(3):1801. - PMID 33450029

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/nar/gkaa1138

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318411725