scholarly journals Scanpy for analysis of large-scale single-cell gene expression data

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Alexander Wolf ◽  
Philipp Angerer ◽  
Fabian J. Theis
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Gene Regulatory Networks ◽  
Regulatory Networks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Cell Gene Expression ◽  
Gene Regulatory ◽  
Cell Gene

We present Scanpy, a scalable toolkit for analyzing single-cell gene expression data. It includes preprocessing, visualization, clustering, pseudotime and trajectory inference, differential expression testing and simulation of gene regulatory networks. The Python-based implementation efficiently deals with datasets of more than one million cells and enables easy interfacing of advanced machine learning packages. Code is available fromhttps://github.com/theislab/scanpy.

scholarly journals Benchmarking algorithms for gene regulatory network inference from single-cell transcriptomic data

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Pratapa ◽  
Amogh P. Jalihal ◽  
Jeffrey N. Law ◽  
Aditya Bharadwaj ◽  
T. M. Murali
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Gene Expression Data ◽  
Expression Data ◽  
Boolean Models ◽  
Transcriptomic Data ◽  
Inference Algorithms ◽  
Cell Gene Expression ◽  
Gene Regulatory ◽  
Cell Gene

AbstractWe present a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art algorithms for inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from single-cell gene expression data. We develop a systematic framework called BEELINE for this purpose. We use synthetic networks with predictable cellular trajectories as well as curated Boolean models to serve as the ground truth for evaluating the accuracy of GRN inference algorithms. We develop a strategy to simulate single-cell gene expression data from these two types of networks that avoids the pitfalls of previously-used methods. We selected 12 representative GRN inference algorithms. We found that the accuracy of these methods (measured in terms of AUROC and AUPRC) was moderate, by and large, although the methods were better in recovering interactions in the synthetic networks than the Boolean models. Techniques that did not require pseudotime-ordered cells were more accurate, in general. The observation that the endpoints of many false positive edges were connected by paths of length two in the Boolean models suggested that indirect effects may be predominant in the outputs of the algorithms we tested. The predicted networks were considerably inconsistent with each other, indicating that combining GRN inference algorithms using ensembles is likely to be challenging. Based on the results, we present some recommendations to users of GRN inference algorithms, including suggestions on how to create simulated gene expression datasets for testing them. BEELINE, which is available at http://github.com/murali-group/BEELINE under an open-source license, will aid in the future development of GRN inference algorithms for single-cell transcriptomic data.

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