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 …

Deciphering tumour heterogeneity: from tissue to liquid biopsy

P Gilson, JL Merlin, A Harlé - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Most malignant tumours are highly heterogeneous at molecular and
phenotypic levels. Tumour variability poses challenges for the management of patients, as it …

Comparison and evaluation of statistical error models for scRNA-seq

S Choudhary, R Satija - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data is driven by multiple
sources, including biological variation in cellular state as well as technical variation …

Longitudinal single-cell RNA-seq analysis reveals stress-promoted chemoresistance in metastatic ovarian cancer

K Zhang, EP Erkan, S Jamalzadeh, J Dai… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Chemotherapy resistance is a critical contributor to cancer mortality and thus an urgent
unmet challenge in oncology. To characterize chemotherapy resistance processes in high …

RNA velocity unraveled

G Gorin, M Fang, T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We perform a thorough analysis of RNA velocity methods, with a view towards
understanding the suitability of the various assumptions underlying popular …

Spatially aware dimension reduction for spatial transcriptomics

L Shang, X Zhou - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics are a collection of genomic technologies that have enabled
transcriptomic profiling on tissues with spatial localization information. Analyzing spatial …

A single-cell analysis of breast cancer cell lines to study tumour heterogeneity and drug response

G Gambardella, G Viscido, B Tumaini, A Isacchi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer cells within a tumour have heterogeneous phenotypes and exhibit dynamic
plasticity. How to evaluate such heterogeneity and its impact on outcome and drug response …

SRTsim: spatial pattern preserving simulations for spatially resolved transcriptomics

J Zhu, L Shang, X Zhou - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT)-specific computational methods are often
developed, tested, validated, and evaluated in silico using simulated data. Unfortunately …

Joint dimension reduction and clustering analysis of single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data

W Liu, X Liao, Y Yang, H Lin, J Yeong… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Dimension reduction and (spatial) clustering is usually performed sequentially; however, the
low-dimensional embeddings estimated in the dimension-reduction step may not be …

A review of single-cell RNA-Seq annotation, integration, and cell–cell communication

C Cheng, W Chen, H Jin, X Chen - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating
cellular biology at an unprecedented resolution, enabling the characterization of cellular …