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Xu, Junlin, Cui, Lingyu, Zhuang, Jujuan, Meng, Yajie, Bing, Pingping, He, Binsheng, Tian, Geng, Pui, Choi Kwok, Wu, Taoyang 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2663-2001, Wang, Bing and Yang, Jialiang
(2022)
Evaluating the performance of dropout imputation and clustering methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data.
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 146.
ISSN 0010-4825
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Abstract
Recent advances in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provide exciting opportunities for transcriptome analysis at single-cell resolution. Clustering individual cells is a key step to reveal cell subtypes and infer cell lineage in scRNA-seq analysis. Although many dedicated algorithms have been proposed, clustering quality remains a computational challenge for scRNA-seq data, which is exacerbated by inflated zero counts due to various technical noise. To address this challenge, we assess the combinations of nine popular dropout imputation methods and eight clustering methods on a collection of 10 well-annotated scRNA-seq datasets with different sample sizes. Our results show that (i) imputation algorithms do typically improve the performance of clustering methods, and the quality of data visualization using t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding; and (ii) the performance of a particular combination of imputation and clustering methods varies with dataset size. For example, the combination of single-cell analysis via expression recovery and Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) methods usually works well on smaller datasets, while the combination of adaptively-thresholded low-rank approximation and single-cell interpretation via multikernel learning (SIMLR) usually achieves the best performance on larger datasets.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was supported by the Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate of China (Grant No. CX20200434) awarded to Junlin Xu, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62172004) to Bing Wang. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | single-cell rna sequencing,dropout imputation,cell clustering,t-sne,adjusted rand index,adjusted rand index,health informatics,computer science applications ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2718 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2022 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2024 23:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/85570 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105697 |
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