Detection of cell markers from single cell RNA-seq with sc2marker

Autor: Ronghui Li, Bella Banjanin, Rebekka K. Schneider, Ivan G. Costa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2105
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04817-5
Popis: Abstract Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows the detection of rare cell types in complex tissues. The detection of markers for rare cell types is useful for further biological analysis of, for example, flow cytometry and imaging data sets for either physical isolation or spatial characterization of these cells. However, only a few computational approaches consider the problem of selecting specific marker genes from scRNA-seq data. Results Here, we propose sc2marker, which is based on the maximum margin index and a database of proteins with antibodies, to select markers for flow cytometry or imaging. We evaluated the performances of sc2marker and competing methods in ranking known markers in scRNA-seq data of immune and stromal cells. The results showed that sc2marker performed better than the competing methods in accuracy, while having a competitive running time.
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