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SCDC: bulk gene expression deconvolution by multiple single-cell RNA sequencing references
| Content Provider | Oxford Academic |
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| Author | Dong, Meichen Thennavan, Aatish Urrutia, Eugene Li, Yun Perou, Charles M Zou, Fei Jiang, Yuchao |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Abstract | Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enable characterization of transcriptomic profiles with single-cell resolution and circumvent averaging artifacts associated with traditional bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data. Here, we propose SCDC, a deconvolution method for bulk RNA-seq that leverages cell-type specific gene expression profiles from multiple scRNA-seq reference datasets. SCDC adopts an ENSEMBLE method to integrate deconvolution results from different scRNA-seq datasets that are produced in different laboratories and at different times, implicitly addressing the problem of batch-effect confounding. SCDC is benchmarked against existing methods using both in silico generated pseudo-bulk samples and experimentally mixed cell lines, whose known cell-type compositions serve as ground truths. We show that SCDC outperforms existing methods with improved accuracy of cell-type decomposition under both settings. To illustrate how the ENSEMBLE framework performs in complex tissues under different scenarios, we further apply our method to a human pancreatic islet dataset and a mouse mammary gland dataset. SCDC returns results that are more consistent with experimental designs and that reproduce more significant associations between cell-type proportions and measured phenotypes. |
| Related Links | https://academic.oup.com/bib/article-pdf/22/1/416/35934954/bbz166.pdf |
| Ending Page | 427 |
| Starting Page | 416 |
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| ISSN | 14675463 |
| e-ISSN | 14774054 |
| DOI | 10.1093/bib/bbz166 |
| Journal | Briefings in Bioinformatics |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 22 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford Academic |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Biological Sciences Science and Mathematics Single-cell Rna Sequencing Bulk Rna Sequencing Gene Expression Deconvolution Ensemble Batch Effect |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Molecular Biology Information Systems |