Comprehensive evaluation of transcriptome-based cell-type quantification methods for immuno-oncology

G Sturm, F Finotello, F Petitprez, JD Zhang… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The composition and density of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment
(TME) profoundly influence tumor progression and success of anti-cancer therapies. Flow …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous enumeration of cancer and immune cell types from bulk tumor gene expression data

J Racle, K de Jonge, P Baumgaertner, DE Speiser… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Immune cells infiltrating tumors can have important impact on tumor progression and
response to therapy. We present an efficient algorithm to simultaneously estimate the …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of immune cell content in tumour tissue using single-cell RNA-seq data

M Schelker, S Feau, J Du, N Ranu, E Klipp… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
As interactions between the immune system and tumour cells are governed by a complex
network of cell–cell interactions, knowing the specific immune cell composition of a solid …

RNA sequencing of the tumor microenvironment in precision cancer immunotherapy

D Lau, AM Bobe, AA Khan - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provides an efficient high-throughput technique to robustly
characterize the tumor immune microenvironment (TME). The increasing use of RNA-seq in …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing in onco-immunology

M Kuksin, D Morel, M Aglave, FX Danlos… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rising interest for precise characterization of the tumour immune contexture has recently
brought forward the high potential of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) in identifying molecular …

TIMER2. 0 for analysis of tumor-infiltrating immune cells

T Li, J Fu, Z Zeng, D Cohen, J Li, Q Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Tumor progression and the efficacy of immunotherapy are strongly influenced by the
composition and abundance of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. Due to the …

Immunedeconv: an R package for unified access to computational methods for estimating immune cell fractions from bulk RNA-sequencing data

G Sturm, F Finotello, M List - Bioinformatics for cancer immunotherapy …, 2020 - Springer
Since the performance of in silico approaches for estimating immune-cell fractions from bulk
RNA-seq data can vary, it is often advisable to compare results of several methods. Given …

Deconvoluting tumor-infiltrating immune cells from RNA-seq data using quanTIseq

C Plattner, F Finotello, D Rieder - Methods in enzymology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumor-infiltrating immune cells comprise various cells of the innate and the adaptive
immune system, which influence tumor growth and response to immunotherapy by exerting …

EPIC: a tool to estimate the proportions of different cell types from bulk gene expression data

J Racle, D Gfeller - Bioinformatics for cancer immunotherapy: methods and …, 2020 - Springer
Gene expression profiling is nowadays routinely performed on clinically relevant samples
(eg, from tumor specimens). Such measurements are often obtained from bulk samples …

Comprehensive benchmarking and integration of tumor microenvironment cell estimation methods

A Jiménez-Sánchez, O Cast, ML Miller - Cancer Research, 2019 - AACR
Various computational approaches have been developed for estimating the relative
abundance of different cell types in the tumor microenvironment (TME) using bulk tumor …