Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

Statistics or biology: the zero-inflation controversy about scRNA-seq data

R Jiang, T Sun, D Song, JJ Li - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Researchers view vast zeros in single-cell RNA-seq data differently: some regard zeros as
biological signals representing no or low gene expression, while others regard zeros as …

A systematic evaluation of single-cell RNA-sequencing imputation methods

W Hou, Z Ji, H Ji, SC Hicks - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The rapid development of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq)
technologies has led to the emergence of many methods for removing systematic technical …

Alignment and integration of spatial transcriptomics data

R Zeira, M Land, A Strzalkowski, BJ Raphael - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures mRNA expression across thousands of spots from a
tissue slice while recording the two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of each spot. We …

DeepImpute: an accurate, fast, and scalable deep neural network method to impute single-cell RNA-seq data

C Arisdakessian, O Poirion, B Yunits, X Zhu… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) offers new opportunities to study gene expression
of tens of thousands of single cells simultaneously. We present DeepImpute, a deep neural …

Separating measurement and expression models clarifies confusion in single-cell RNA sequencing analysis

A Sarkar, M Stephens - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The high proportion of zeros in typical single-cell RNA sequencing datasets has led to
widespread but inconsistent use of terminology such as dropout and missing data. Here, we …

A review of integrative imputation for multi-omics datasets

M Song, J Greenbaum, J Luttrell IV, W Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Multi-omics studies, which explore the interactions between multiple types of biological
factors, have significant advantages over single-omics analysis for their ability to provide a …

Gene regulatory network reconstruction using single-cell RNA sequencing of barcoded genotypes in diverse environments

CA Jackson, DM Castro, GA Saldi, R Bonneau… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how gene expression programs are controlled requires identifying regulatory
relationships between transcription factors and target genes. Gene regulatory networks are …

scIGANs: single-cell RNA-seq imputation using generative adversarial networks

Y Xu, Z Zhang, L You, J Liu, Z Fan… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the characterization of transcriptomic
profiles at the single-cell resolution with increasingly high throughput. However, it suffers …

CMF-Impute: an accurate imputation tool for single-cell RNA-seq data

J Xu, L Cai, B Liao, W Zhu, JL Yang - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology provides a powerful tool for
investigating cell heterogeneity and cell subpopulations by allowing the quantification of …