Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

Impact of the Human Cell Atlas on medicine

JE Rood, A Maartens, A Hupalowska, SA Teichmann… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell atlases promise to provide a 'missing link'between genes, diseases and
therapies. By identifying the specific cell types, states, programs and contexts where disease …

Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model

N Brandes, G Goldman, CH Wang, CJ Ye, V Ntranos - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of coding variants is a major challenge. While recent deep-learning
models have improved variant effect prediction accuracy, they cannot analyze all coding …

Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment

R Polak, ET Zhang, CJ Kuo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
The development of neoplasia involves a complex and continuous interplay between
malignantly transformed cells and the tumour microenvironment (TME). Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel base editing to map variant effects in human hematopoiesis

JD Martin-Rufino, N Castano, M Pang, EI Grody… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Systematic evaluation of the impact of genetic variants is critical for the study and treatment
of human physiology and disease. While specific mutations can be introduced by genome …

Linear causal disentanglement via interventions

C Squires, A Seigal, SS Bhate… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Causal disentanglement seeks a representation of data involving latent variables that are
related via a causal model. A representation is identifiable if both the latent model and the …

Toward a foundation model of causal cell and tissue biology with a Perturbation Cell and Tissue Atlas

JE Rood, A Hupalowska, A Regev - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Comprehensively charting the biologically causal circuits that govern the phenotypic space
of human cells has often been viewed as an insurmountable challenge. However, in the last …

The specious art of single-cell genomics

T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Dimensionality reduction is standard practice for filtering noise and identifying relevant
features in large-scale data analyses. In biology, single-cell genomics studies typically begin …

Transcriptional linkage analysis with in vivo AAV-Perturb-seq

AJ Santinha, E Klingler, M Kuhn, R Farouni, S Lagler… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The ever-growing compendium of genetic variants associated with human pathologies
demands new methods to study genotype–phenotype relationships in complex tissues in a …

Scalable functional assays for the interpretation of human genetic variation

D Tabet, V Parikh, P Mali, FP Roth… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Scalable sequence–function studies have enabled the systematic analysis and cataloging of
hundreds of thousands of coding and noncoding genetic variants in the human genome …