A deep adversarial variational autoencoder model for dimensionality reduction in single-cell RNA sequencing analysis
Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is an emerging technology that can assess the function of an individual cell and cell-to-cell variability at the single cell level in an unbiased manner. Dimensionality reduction is an essential first step in downstream analysis of the scRNA-seq data...
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| Vydáno v: | BMC bioinformatics Ročník 21; číslo 1; s. 64 - 11 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London
BioMed Central
21.02.2020
BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2105, 1471-2105 |
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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is an emerging technology that can assess the function of an individual cell and cell-to-cell variability at the single cell level in an unbiased manner. Dimensionality reduction is an essential first step in downstream analysis of the scRNA-seq data. However, the scRNA-seq data are challenging for traditional methods due to their high dimensional measurements as well as an abundance of dropout events (that is, zero expression measurements).
Results
To overcome these difficulties, we propose DR-A (Dimensionality Reduction with Adversarial variational autoencoder), a data-driven approach to fulfill the task of dimensionality reduction. DR-A leverages a novel adversarial variational autoencoder-based framework, a variant of generative adversarial networks. DR-A is well-suited for unsupervised learning tasks for the scRNA-seq data, where labels for cell types are costly and often impossible to acquire. Compared with existing methods, DR-A is able to provide a more accurate low dimensional representation of the scRNA-seq data. We illustrate this by utilizing DR-A for clustering of scRNA-seq data.
Conclusions
Our results indicate that DR-A significantly enhances clustering performance over state-of-the-art methods. |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2105 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12859-020-3401-5 |