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Efficient Generation of Transcriptomic Profiles by Random Composite Measurements

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Cleary, Brian, Cong, Le, Cheung, Anthea, Lander, Eric S., Regev, Aviv·2017·Cell

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RNA profiles are an informative phenotype of cellular and tissue states but can be costly to generate at massive scale. Here, we describe how gene expression levels can be efficiently acquired with random composite measurements-in which abundances are combined in a random weighted sum. We show (1) that the similarity between pairs of expression profiles can be approximated with very few composite measurements; (2) that by leveraging sparse, modular representations of gene expression, we can use random composite measurements to recover high-dimensional gene expression levels (with 100 times fewer measurements than genes); and (3) that it is possible to blindly recover gene expression from composite measurements, even without access to training data. Our results suggest new compressive modalities as a foundation for massive scaling in high-throughput measurements and new insights into the interpretation of high-dimensional data.

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Authors
Cleary, B., Cong, L., Cheung, A., Lander, E. S., & Regev, A.
Affiliations
Broad Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Regev, Aviv
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-11
Volume
171
Issue
6
Pages
1424-1436.e18
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2768455369
Cited by
114
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
5.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PMC
Funders
  • NHGRI CEGS (RM1HG006193)
  • HHMI
  • Klarman Cell Obervatory
  • CRI
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Keywords
gene expression profiling, transcriptomics, compressed sensing, sparse representation, high-dimensional data
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Humans, Sequence Analysis, RNA, K562 Cells, Gene Expression Profiling, Data Compression, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing

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