<p>Dimensionality reduction is routinely applied to single-cell transcriptomic data to improve interpretability, remove noise and redundancy, and enable visualization. Most existing methods aim at preserving the most prominent data properties, which can lead to omission of rare but important signals. Here we propose a novel framework, SAKURA, that uses knowledge-derived genes of interest to guide dimensionality reduction, which can help cluster rare cells and separate highly similar cell subpopulations. We demonstrate the utility of our framework in identifying endocrine cell subtypes in the pancreatic islet, highly similar hematopoietic subpopulations, and rare senescent cells.</p>

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SAKURA: a knowledge-guided approach to recovering important, rare signals from single-cell data

  • Zhenghao Zhang,
  • Jiamin Chen,
  • Haoran Wu,
  • Kelly Yichen Li,
  • Peter D. Adams,
  • Pamela Itkin-Ansari,
  • Kevin Y. Yip

摘要

Dimensionality reduction is routinely applied to single-cell transcriptomic data to improve interpretability, remove noise and redundancy, and enable visualization. Most existing methods aim at preserving the most prominent data properties, which can lead to omission of rare but important signals. Here we propose a novel framework, SAKURA, that uses knowledge-derived genes of interest to guide dimensionality reduction, which can help cluster rare cells and separate highly similar cell subpopulations. We demonstrate the utility of our framework in identifying endocrine cell subtypes in the pancreatic islet, highly similar hematopoietic subpopulations, and rare senescent cells.