Quantitative assessment of cell population diversity in single-cell landscapes.

Autor: Qi Liu, Charles A Herring, Quanhu Sheng, Jie Ping, Alan J Simmons, Bob Chen, Amrita Banerjee, Wei Li, Guoqiang Gu, Robert J Coffey, Yu Shyr, Ken S Lau
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: PLoS Biology, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e2006687 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1544-9173
1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006687
Popis: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become a powerful tool for the systematic investigation of cellular diversity. As a number of computational tools have been developed to identify and visualize cell populations within a single scRNA-seq dataset, there is a need for methods to quantitatively and statistically define proportional shifts in cell population structures across datasets, such as expansion or shrinkage or emergence or disappearance of cell populations. Here we present sc-UniFrac, a framework to statistically quantify compositional diversity in cell populations between single-cell transcriptome landscapes. sc-UniFrac enables sensitive and robust quantification in simulated and experimental datasets in terms of both population identity and quantity. We have demonstrated the utility of sc-UniFrac in multiple applications, including assessment of biological and technical replicates, classification of tissue phenotypes and regional specification, identification and definition of altered cell infiltrates in tumorigenesis, and benchmarking batch-correction tools. sc-UniFrac provides a framework for quantifying diversity or alterations in cell populations across conditions and has broad utility for gaining insight into tissue-level perturbations at the single-cell resolution.
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