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Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities
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Recent advances in single-cell technologies have enabled high-throughput molecular profiling of cells across modalities and locations. Single-cell transcriptomics data can now be complemented by chromatin accessibility, surface protein expression, adaptive immune receptor repertoire profiling and spatial information. The increasing availability of single-cell data across modalities has motivated the development of novel computational methods to help analysts derive biological insights. As the field grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate the vast landscape of tools and analysis steps. Here, we summarize independent benchmarking studies of unimodal and multimodal single-cell analysis across modalities to suggest comprehensive best-practice workflows for the most common analysis steps. Where independent benchmarks are not available, we review and contrast popular methods. Our article serves as an entry point for novices in the field of single-cell (multi-)omic analysis and guides advanced users to the most recent best practices.
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“For this purpose, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests performed best, but owing to the nature of clustering, P values can be inflated and might lead to false discoveries, as the same data are used to define the labels that we test for differences between60,61.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From clusters to cell identities
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- Supportedcites [60] Pullin, J. M. & McCarthy, D. J. A comparison of marker gene selection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.09.490241 (2022). source
The Discussion identifies methods based on the Wilcoxon rank-sum test as among the best-performing methods for selecting marker genes. It names Student’s t-test and logistic regression alongside Wilcoxon, so the finding does not establish Wilcoxon as the sole best method. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Partly supportedcites [61] Zhang, J. M., Kamath, G. M. & Tse, D. N. Valid post-clustering differential analysis for single-cell RNA-seq. Cell Syst. 9, 383–392.e6 (2019). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Methods section identifies the Wilcoxon rank-sum test as a differential-expression method, and the Results discuss its use in selecting genes. But the paper does not say it performed best for identifying marker genes; the Results instead warn that the compared tests do not account for clustering-selection bias. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Current methods for DGE analysis still show a trade-off between true positive rate (TPR) and precision.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > Revealing mechanisms
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- Supportedcites [83] Wang, T., Li, B., Nelson, C. E. & Nabavi, S. Comparative analysis of differential gene expression analysis tools for single-cell RNA sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics 20, 40 (2019). source
The Discussion’s ‘Detection accuracy’ section says that tools with higher sensitivity also show lower precision. The Conclusions explicitly describe a trade-off between true-positive rates and precision in calling differentially expressed genes. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Moreover, low numbers of reads in peak versus non-peak regions are indicators for low signal-to-noise ratios similar to TSS scores9.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Supportedcites [9] Baek, S. & Lee, I. Single-cell ATAC sequencing analysis: from data preprocessing to hypothesis generation. Comput. Struct. Biotechnol. J. 18, 1429–1439 (2020). This article serves as an introduction to the scATAC-seq analysis workflow. source
The Data preprocessing > Quality control section (page unavailable) lists fraction of reads in peaks (FRiP) and TSS enrichment together as measures used to select scATAC-seq barcodes. This supports the citing sentence’s comparison of peak-read proportion with TSS scores as quality indicators; the paper does not use the phrase “signal-to-noise ratio” there. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“one should consider removing ambient RNA as an initial analysis step in quality control to improve downstream analyses for many tissues21–23.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Young, M. D. & Behjati, S. SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data. Gigascience 9, giaa151 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [22] Fleming, S. J. et al. Unsupervised removal of systematic background noise from droplet-based single-cell experiments using CellBender. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/791699 (2022). source
- Not checked yetcites [23] Yang, S. et al. Decontamination of ambient RNA in single-cell RNA-seq with DecontX. Genome Biol. 21, 57 (2020). source
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“The shifted logarithm transformation with size factor s performs well but should not be used with counts per million as an input, as it reflects an unrealistically large overdispersion.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [29] Ahlmann-Eltze, C. & Huber, W. Comparison of transformations for single-cell RNA-seq data. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.24.449781 (2022). source
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“although computational best practices and tool recommendations have previously been outlined for scRNA-seq2,5,6,17, they are either outdated or incomplete.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Amezquita, R. A. et al. Orchestrating single-cell analysis with bioconductor. Nat. Methods 17, 137–145 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [5] Luecken, M. D. & Theis, F. J. Current best practices in single-cell RNA-seq analysis: a tutorial. Mol. Syst. Biol. 15, e8746 (2019). This scRNA-seq-focused review and workflow template served as inspiration for the current benchmark-based Expert Recommendation. source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Kharchenko, P. V. The triumphs and limitations of computational methods for scRNA-seq. Nat. Methods 18, 723–732 (2021). The article highlights limitations of computational methods, which analysts should be aware of. source
- Not checked yetcites [17] Stuart, T. & Satija, R. Integrative single-cell analysis. Nat. Rev. Genet. 20, 257–272 (2019). A review of the advent of multimodal single-cell data with a focus on the experimental assays and data integration. source
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“Ambient RNA contamination can lead to cell-type-specific marker gene transcripts being detectable also in other cell populations, which can blend different cell populations together21.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Young, M. D. & Behjati, S. SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data. Gigascience 9, giaa151 (2020). source
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“The shifted logarithm transformation with size factor s performs well but should not be used with counts per million as an input, as it reflects an unrealistically large overdispersion.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [29] Ahlmann-Eltze, C. & Huber, W. Comparison of transformations for single-cell RNA-seq data. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.24.449781 (2022). source
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“a recent study showed that relying only on 2D embeddings can lead to misinterpretation of the relationships between cells”
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Chari, T., Banerjee, J. & Pachter, L. The specious art of single-cell genomics. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.25.457696 (2022). source
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“The performance of trajectory inference approaches depends on the type of trajectory present in the data set.”
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“leading to more than 1,400 tools currently being available to analyse scRNA-seq data1”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Zappia, L. & Theis, F. J. Over 1000 tools reveal trends in the single-cell RNA-seq analysis landscape. Genome Biol. 22, 301 (2021). source
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“Several benchmarks have highlighted that scDblFinder outperforms other methods in terms of doublet detection accuracy and computational efficiency25–27.”
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Xi, N. M. & Li, J. J. Protocol for executing and benchmarking eight computational doublet-detection methods in single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis. Star. Protoc. 2, 100699 (2021). source
- Not checked yetcites [26] Xi, N. M. & Li, J. J. Benchmarking computational doublet-detection methods for single-cell RNA sequencing data. Cell Syst. 12, 176–194.e6 (2021). source
- Not checked yetcites [27] Neavin, D. et al. Demuxafy: improvement in droplet assignment by integrating multiple single-cell demultiplexing and doublet detection methods. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.07.483367 (2022). source
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“Additionally, it can be beneficial to apply multiple doublet detection methods and compare the results to increase the accuracy of doublet detection27.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Neavin, D. et al. Demuxafy: improvement in droplet assignment by integrating multiple single-cell demultiplexing and doublet detection methods. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.07.483367 (2022). source
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“Louvain’s successor Leiden circumvents this issue by yielding guaranteed connected communities and is computationally more efficient52.”
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Traag, V. A., Waltman, L. & van Eck, N. J. From Louvain to Leiden: guaranteeing well-connected communities. Sci. Rep. 9, 5233 (2019). source
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“As it is splicing kinetics that are modelled, the observed process must also occur during this time frame70.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From clusters to cell identities
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- Not checked yetcites [70] Bergen, V., Soldatov, R. A., Kharchenko, P. V. & Theis, F. J. RNA velocity-current challenges and future perspectives. Mol. Syst. Biol. 17, e10282 (2021). source
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“Although Slingshot62 performed better for simple topologies, PAGA63 and RaceID/StemID64 scored better for complex trajectories65.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From clusters to cell identities
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- Not checked yetcites [65] Saelens, W., Cannoodt, R., Todorov, H. & Saeys, Y. A comparison of single-cell trajectory inference methods: towards more accurate and robust tools. Nat. Biotechnol. 37, 547–554 (2019). source
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“scANVI40 can incorporate the cell-type labels, which is favourable as it can help to conserve biological variation35.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Luecken, M. D. et al. Benchmarking atlas-level data integration in single-cell genomics. Nat. Methods 19, 41–50 (2022). source
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“analytical Pearson residuals are better suited for selection of biologically variable genes and identification of rare cell identities31.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Lause, J., Berens, P. & Kobak, D. Analytic Pearson residuals for normalization of single-cell RNA-seq UMI data. Genome Biol. 22, 258 (2021). source
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“Moreover, if a gene includes multiple, pronounced kinetics, lineage-specific models are more appropriate69.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From clusters to cell identities
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- Not checked yetcites [69] Weiler, P., Van den Berge, K., Street, K. & Tiberi, S. A guide to trajectory inference and RNA velocity. Methods Mol. Biol. 2584, 269–292 (2023). source
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“It performed favourably for identifying genes with high variance across subpopulations and thus for selecting informative genes, as shown in an independent comparison20.”
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Germain, P.-L., Sonrel, A. & Robinson, M. D. pipeComp, a general framework for the evaluation of computational pipelines, reveals performant single cell RNA-seq preprocessing tools. Genome Biol. 21, 227 (2020). source
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“Under the assumption of constant rates, phase portraits form an almond shape with induction (upper half/arc) and repression (lower half/arc) phases.”
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“Additionally, ranking genes by deviance is performed on raw counts and is therefore not sensitive to normalization.”
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“Gene expression is controlled by a complex interplay of regulatory mechanisms, including epigenetics and chromatin accessibility132.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility
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- Not checked yetcites [132] Isbel, L., Grand, R. S. & Schübeler, D. Generating specificity in genome regulation through transcription factor sensitivity to chromatin. Nat. Rev. Genet. 23, 728–740 (2022). source
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“Single-cell-specific methods were found to systematically underestimate the variance of gene expression and to be prone to wrongly labelling highly expressed genes as differentially expressed86.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > Revealing mechanisms
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- Not checked yetcites [86] Squair, J. W. et al. Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression. Nat. Commun. 12, 5692 (2021). source
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“for which tools have not yet been independently benchmarked.”
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“Owing to the lack of consensus between tools, we recommend using LIANA, which provides an overall ranking for several combinations of method and database126.”
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- Not checked yetcites [126] Dimitrov, D. et al. Comparison of methods and resources for cell-cell communication inference from single-cell RNA-seq data. Nat. Commun. 13, 3224 (2022). source
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“single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin sequencing (scATAC-seq) measures genome-wide chromatin accessibility in individual cells133,134”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility
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- Not checked yetcites [133] Cusanovich, D. A. et al. Multiplex single-cell profiling of chromatin accessibility by combinatorial cellular indexing. Science 348, 910–914 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [134] Buenrostro, J. D. et al. Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation. Nature 523, 486–490 (2015). source
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“Reducing K for the KNN graph or constructing a graph on particular lineages mitigates this issue112.”
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- Not checked yetcites [112] Dann, E., Henderson, N. C., Teichmann, S. A., Morgan, M. D. & Marioni, J. C. Differential abundance testing on single-cell data using k-nearest neighbor graphs. Nat. Biotechnol. 40, 245–253 (2022). source
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“Most workflows use a cell-by-peak or cell-by-bin matrix as a basis for analysis, which performs better than matrices of gene or TF motif features135”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Not checked yetcites [135] Chen, H. et al. Assessment of computational methods for the analysis of single-cell ATAC-seq data. Genome Biol. 20, 241 (2019). source
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“Although the performance on scATAC-seq data has not been benchmarked yet, existing benchmarks on bulk ATAC-seq data recommend edgeR for the determination of DARs when sample size is limited and DESeq2 in the case of large sample sizes146.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Annotating cell identities based on accessible regions
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- Not checked yetcites [146] Gontarz, P. et al. Comparison of differential accessibility analysis strategies for ATAC-seq data. Sci. Rep. 10, 10150 (2020). source
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“This approach can be extended by inferring active TFs using SCENIC followed by matching the corresponding motifs with peak regions to add additional interpretability156.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Linking single-cell chromatin accessibility and transcriptomics
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- Not checked yetcites [156] Liu, L. et al. Deconvolution of single-cell multi-omics layers reveals regulatory heterogeneity. Nat. Commun. 10, 470 (2019). source
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“Notably, the cell-by-peak matrix is even more sparse than scRNA-seq data, with only 1–10% of peaks called in each cell owing to the presence of only two copies of assayable chromatin in cells of a diploid organism135.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Not checked yetcites [135] Chen, H. et al. Assessment of computational methods for the analysis of single-cell ATAC-seq data. Genome Biol. 20, 241 (2019). source
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“TF-motif enrichment facilitates the characterization of cell identity and can be conducted on a cluster level using a hypergeometric test on cluster-specific DARs140.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Unravelling identities with TF motifs and footprinting
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- Not checked yetcites [140] Granja, J. M. et al. ArchR is a scalable software package for integrative single-cell chromatin accessibility analysis. Nat. Genet. 53, 403–411 (2021). source
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“Identifying peaks requires a sufficient number of cells and therefore may fail in rare cell types136.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Not checked yetcites [136] Fang, R. et al. Comprehensive analysis of single cell ATAC-seq data with SnapATAC. Nat. Commun. 12, 1337 (2021). source
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“Although advancements in experimental assays allow for the paired measurements of many modality combinations246, different modalities are still commonly measured independently, resulting in unpaired data247.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Linking single-cell chromatin accessibility and transcriptomics
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- Not checked yetcites [246] Mimitou, E. P. et al. Scalable, multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility, gene expression and protein levels in single cells. Nat. Biotechnol. 39, 1246–1258 (2021). A review on multimodal data integration that further categorizes methods into different types of data integration task as for example used here. source
- Not checked yetcites [247] Lake, B. B. et al. Integrative single-cell analysis of transcriptional and epigenetic states in the human adult brain. Nat. Biotechnol. 36, 70–80 (2018). source
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“However, this may also remove biological information and therefore modelling of scATAC counts directly has been suggested142.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Learning a low-dimensional representation
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- Not checked yetcites [142] Martens, L. D., Fischer, D. S., Theis, F. J. & Gagneur, J. Modeling fragment counts improves single-cell ATAC-seq analysis. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.04.490536 (2022). source
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“The sensitivity of peak detection can be improved by calling them within clusters, which reduces the risk of missing peaks in rare cell types masked by the noise of other highly abundant cell types.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Not checked yetcites [136] Fang, R. et al. Comprehensive analysis of single cell ATAC-seq data with SnapATAC. Nat. Commun. 12, 1337 (2021). source
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“To guide cell-type annotation, simple models are often sufficient, and visualization can be enhanced by smoothing gene activity scores among neighbouring cells, which is often performed using MAGIC152.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Annotating cell identities based on accessible regions
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- Not checked yetcites [152] van Dijk, D. et al. Recovering gene interactions from single-cell data using data diffusion. Cell 174, 716–729.e27 (2018). source
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“Low-quality cells often form a cluster combining low counts and low TSS enrichment scores that should be removed137.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Feature definition and quality control
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- Not checked yetcites [137] Ou, J. et al. ATACseqQC: a Bioconductor package for post-alignment quality assessment of ATAC-seq data. BMC Genomics 19, 169 (2018). source
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“Although totalVI and MultiVI can also be used for mosaic integration, they are both applicable only to CITE-seq and Multiome data, respectively.”
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“It has been shown to work well for the integration of more than two modalities and is the winner of the NeurIPS 2021 multimodal single-cell data integration challenge252.”
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- Not checked yetcites [252] Lance, C. et al. Multimodal single cell data integration challenge: results and lessons learned. in Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2021 Competitions and Demonstrations Track (eds Kiela, D., Ciccone, M. & Caputo, B.) vol. 176 162–176 (PMLR, 2022). source
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“DSB uses background droplets that represent protein background noise to correct values in cells while removing cell-to-cell variation by combining isotype control levels with the specific background level of the respective cell.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Surface protein expression > Accounting for ADT composition biases
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- Not checked yetcites [161] Mulè, M. P., Martins, A. J. & Tsang, J. S. Normalizing and denoising protein expression data from droplet-based single cell profiling. Nat. Commun. 13, 2099 (2022). source
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“To capture the vast range of antigens, somatic V(D)J recombination generates highly diverse AIR sequences across the population of B and T cells in an individual”
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“However, cells with more than two assignments for either VJ or VDJ chains are always indicative of doublets.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Filtering for functional adaptive immune receptors
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“By contrast, private clonotypes represent patient-specific clonal responses that might be valuable for personalized medicine.”
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“Clonotypes can be identified by identical V gene and identical nucleic acid sequences for VJ and VDJ CDR3 for TCRs or based on distance as implemented in the analysis frameworks for lineage reconstruction of BCRs accounting for somatic hypermutation”
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“Public clonotypes appear in more than one donor and can represent shared immunological response.”
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“Lymphocytes can express dual AIRs173 with ~10% expressing multiple VJ chains paired with a single VDJ chain.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Filtering for functional adaptive immune receptors
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- Not checked yetcites [173] Schuldt, N. J. & Binstadt, B. A. Dual TCR T cells: identity crisis or multitaskers? J. Immunol. 202, 637–644 (2019). source
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“As antibody efficacy is variable, the integration of ADT data across several studies can lead to strong batch effects that should be corrected for160.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Surface protein expression > Correcting ADT counts
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- Not checked yetcites [160] Zheng, Y., Jun, S.-H., Tian, Y., Florian, M. & Gottardo, R. Robust normalization and integration of single-cell protein expression across CITE-seq datasets. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.29.489989. source
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“The recombination of V(D)J gene segments and the imprecise junction of V and J segments produce the CDR3 region in VJ and VDJ chains that is mainly responsible for AIR–antigen binding.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Decoding AIRR sequence characteristics
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“Whereas BCRs directly recognize soluble or membrane-bound epitopes, TCRs interact with linear peptides bound to cell-surface major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules.”
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“TCRs and BCRs are transmembrane surface protein complexes that constitute the adaptive immune receptor repertoire (AIRR)”
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“Adding information extracted from the imaging data can enhance, for example, cell identification193,194 or the resolution of the molecular features195, or can help to identify spatial patterns of variation196.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space
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- Not checked yetcites [193] Tan, X., Su, A., Tran, M. & Nguyen, Q. SpaCell: integrating tissue morphology and spatial gene expression to predict disease cells. Bioinformatics 36, 2293–2294 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [194] He, B. et al. Integrating spatial gene expression and breast tumour morphology via deep learning. Nat. Biomed. Eng. 4, 827–834 (2020). source
- Not checked yetcites [195] Bergenstråhle, L. et al. Super-resolved spatial transcriptomics by deep data fusion. Nat. Biotechnol. 40, 476–479 (2022). source
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“BALDR169, BASIC170 and BraCer171 were shown to robustly recover BCR sequences172 but are no longer maintained.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Decoding AIRR sequence characteristics
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- Not checked yetcites [169] Upadhyay, A. A. et al. BALDR: a computational pipeline for paired heavy and light chain immunoglobulin reconstruction in single-cell RNA-seq data. Genome Med. 10, 20 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [170] Canzar, S., Neu, K. E., Tang, Q., Wilson, P. C. & Khan, A. A. BASIC: BCR assembly from single cells. Bioinformatics 33, 425–427 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [171] Lindeman, I. et al. BraCeR: B-cell-receptor reconstruction and clonality inference from single-cell RNA-seq. Nat. Methods 15, 563–565 (2018). source
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“Alternatively, Multigrate learns a joint latent space of paired and unpaired measurements. Combined with transfer learning, Multigrate can map unimodal and multimodal query data sets to multi-omic references while imputing missing modalities254.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Linking single-cell chromatin accessibility and transcriptomics
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- Not checked yetcites [254] Lotfollahi, M., Litinetskaya, A. & Theis, F. J. Multigrate: single-cell multi-omic data integration. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.16.484643 (2022). source
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“Although no benchmarks exist for TCR sequence reconstruction, MiXCR167 and TRUST4 (ref. 168) are frequently used.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Decoding AIRR sequence characteristics
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- Not checked yetcites [167] Bolotin, D. A. et al. MiXCR: software for comprehensive adaptive immunity profiling. Nat. Methods 12, 380–381 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [168] Song, L. et al. TRUST4: immune repertoire reconstruction from bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data. Nat. Methods 18, 627–630 (2021). source
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“All three approaches suffer from reliance on public databases that contain data primarily from commonly researched diseases and a lack of information on MHCs to decipher T cell antigen specificity.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Determining cell specificity
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“Alternatively, weighted nearest-neighbour (WNN)3 analysis learns cell-specific modality weights that reflect the modality information content to determine the importance of modalities in downstream analyses in the form of a neighbour graph.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Chromatin accessibility > Linking single-cell chromatin accessibility and transcriptomics
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- Not checked yetcites [3] Hao, Y. et al. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data. Cell 184, 3573–3587.e29 (2021). source
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“Contrary to the negative binomial distribution of gene counts, ADT data are less sparse.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Surface protein expression > Correcting ADT counts
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“Cellular organization bridges the gap between tissue biology and pathology, which enables the discovery of new cellular functionalities and creates new computational challenges for which distinct analysis methods are required190–192.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space
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- Not checked yetcites [190] Palla, G., Fischer, D. S., Regev, A. & Theis, F. J. Spatial components of molecular tissue biology. Nat. Biotechnol. 40, 308–318 (2022). This review highlights both the importance of different spatial profiling technologies and computational challenges for single-cell data resolved in space. source
- Not checked yetcites [191] Dries, R. et al. Advances in spatial transcriptomic data analysis. Genome Res. 31, 1706–1718 (2021). source
- Not checked yetcites [192] Asp, M., Bergenstråhle, J. & Lundeberg, J. Spatially resolved transcriptomes-next generation tools for tissue exploration. Bioessays 42, e1900221 (2020). source
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“The most influencing positions of the AIR–antigen interaction, reflecting specificity, are contained in the CDR3 of the VDJ chain and to a lesser degree the CDR3 in the VJ chain176.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Adaptive immune receptor repertoires > Determining cell specificity
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- Not checked yetcites [176] Springer, I., Tickotsky, N. & Louzoun, Y. Contribution of T cell receptor alpha and beta CDR3, MHC typing, V and J genes to peptide binding prediction. Front. Immunol. 12, 664514 (2021). source
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“An alternative approach is to use CiteFuse163, which normalizes ADTs using CLR and combines both modality matrices with a similarity network fusion algorithm.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Surface protein expression > Jointly analysing transcriptomics and ADT data
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- Not checked yetcites [163] Kim, H. J., Lin, Y., Geddes, T. A., Yang, J. Y. H. & Yang, P. CiteFuse enables multi-modal analysis of CITE-seq data. Bioinformatics 36, 4137–4143 (2020). source
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“For simulated data sets, cell2location outperformed other approaches for cell-type deconvolution, but requires more computational resources, whereas for real data sets, SpatialDWLS and RCTD performed best in terms of the overall accuracy score based on four different accuracy metrics215,216.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Obtaining count matrices and spatial coordinates of cells
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- Not checked yetcites [215] Li, B. et al. Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution. Nat. Methods 19, 662–670 (2022). source
- Not checked yetcites [216] Yan, L. & Sun, X. Benchmarking and integration of methods for deconvoluting spatial transcriptomic data. Bioinformatics 39, btac805 (2023). source
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“Processing pipelines such as Giotto and squidpy allow the addition of tailored segmentation methods to the analysis pipeline, which simplifies the comparison, choice and evaluation of the chosen method.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Obtaining count matrices and spatial coordinates of cells
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“Tools for their exploratory analysis, the integration with omics data sets and the mapping of omics measurements to phenotype information are lacking, and we expect further developments in this direction.”
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“They simplify the analysis of single-cell data by skipping manual quality control steps.”
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“These events are commonly referred to as extrinsic effects on gene expression variation and should be taken into consideration in efforts to describe cellular organization and tissue niches236.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Spatially dependent communication events across cells
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- Not checked yetcites [236] Fischer, D. S., Schaar, A. C. & Theis, F. J. Modeling intercellular communication in tissues using spatial graphs of cells. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01467-z (2022). source
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“All recommendations are based on independent benchmarks, which inevitably lag behind the latest method developments.”
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“Genes are typically selected on the basis of prior biological knowledge obtained from scRNA-seq (probe selection) and might not be suited to the identification of rare cell subpopulations, which results in bias towards known cell types223.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Characterization of cell identity and cellular microenvironments
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- Not checked yetcites [223] Kuemmerle, L. B. et al. Probe set selection for targeted spatial transcriptomics. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.16.504115. source
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“Coupling genome-scale Perturb-seq with further modalities enables the systematic exploration of the genetic landscape to unveil context-specific gene regulatory networks.”
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“Methods for the analysis of these measurements are sparse, selectively benchmarked, and best practices have yet to be developed.”
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“Gene expression matrices obtained by array-based spatial transcriptomics followed by cell-type deconvolution, or by image-based spatial transcriptomics followed by segmentation, can be filtered, normalized and visualized in a similar way to scRNA-seq data.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Obtaining count matrices and spatial coordinates of cells
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“Methods for this purpose vary broadly with respect to their assumptions and their definition of SVGs, and there is no consensus on how to best identify SVGs.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Single-cell data resolved in space > Identification of spatial patterns linked to cellular organization and tissue structure
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scRNA-seq captures only one layer of the complex regulatory machinery that governs cellular function and signalling.
“scRNA-seq captures only one layer of the complex regulatory machinery that governs cellular function and signalling.”
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Heterotypic doublets are hard to annotate and can lead to wrong cell-type labels.
“Doublets formed by different cell types (heterotypic doublets) are hard to annotate and can lead to wrong cell-type labels.”
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Scaling all genes by a common factor assumes that differences in count depth due to cell size are negligible.
“By scaling all genes by a common factor, one assumes that differences in count depth due to cell size are negligible.”
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RNA velocity inference assumes gene independence and constant rates of transcription, splicing and degradation.
“RNA velocity inference assumes gene independence and constant rates of transcription, splicing and degradation.”
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Most analysis tasks assume that each droplet contains RNA from an intact single cell.
“Most analysis tasks assume that each droplet contains RNA from an intact single cell.”
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Cell–cell communication is essential for organismal development and homeostasis, and its impairment leads to disease.
“Cells are in constant interaction with each other for organismal development and homeostasis. If this interaction is impaired, disease ensues.”
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Not all generated AIR chains produced during allelic rearrangements form a functional AIR.
“Not all generated AIR chains produced during allelic rearrangements form a functional AIR.”
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Public clonotypes represent shared immunological responses.
“Public clonotypes appear in more than one donor and can represent shared immunological response.”
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Including the VJ CDR3 sequence in database queries decreases the false discovery rate compared with using the VDJ CDR3 sequence alone.
“Similarly to clonotype assignment, database queries can be conducted with varying strictness by considering either the VDJ CDR3 sequence alone, or additionally the VJ CDR3 sequence, which decreases the FDR.”
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The presence of AIRs can guide cell-type annotation by separating immune cell clusters and facilitating detailed T cell annotations.
“The presence of AIRs can guide cell-type annotation by separating immune cell clusters and facilitating detailed T cell annotations.”
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Analysing spatial data sets requires analysis tools specifically tailored to this modality.
“Analysing spatial data sets requires analysis tools specifically tailored to this modality, which can be conducted with frameworks such as Squidpy209, Giotto210, Seurat45 or SpatialExperiment211.”
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In tissue, cells interact through direct contact, surface-bound ligands and receptors, long-range paracrine effects, bio-mechanical forces, and indirect mechanisms such as metabolite exchange.
“In tissue, cells have direct contact and can interact through surface-bound ligands and receptors, long-range paracrine effects, bio-mechanical forces and indirect mechanisms such as metabolite exchange.”
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Array-based spatial transcriptomics assays do not capture single-cell resolution, so spot gene expression reflects cell-type composition rather than distinct cell types.
“As array-based assays do not capture single-cell resolution, the gene expression profile of spots reflects cell-type composition rather than distinct cell types.”
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Imaging-based spatial transcriptomics technologies commonly read out only a predefined set of transcripts.
“These technologies commonly read out only a predefined set of transcripts.”
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Alignment of spatially naive scRNA-seq data and targeted spatially resolved data enables imputation of the whole transcriptome in a spatially resolved manner.
“Alignment of standard spatially naive scRNA-seq data and targeted spatially resolved data enables imputation of the whole transcriptome (measured in standard scRNA-seq) in a spatially resolved manner and attempts to resolve the limitations of targeted feature spaces.”
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The identification of cellular microenvironments across different samples can be hindered by differences in image orientation.
“The identification of cellular microenvironments across different samples can be hindered by differences with respect to image orientation.”
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Cell communication events can be identified in dissociated scRNA-seq data.
“Cell communication events can be identified in dissociated scRNA-seq data as described above.”
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Models built on latent spaces become predictive with query-to-reference mapping approaches, creating a shift from unsupervised exploratory analysis to supervised predictions.
“Models built on these latent spaces become predictive with query-to-reference mapping approaches, which will create a shift from the unsupervised, exploratory analysis approach to single-cell analysis complemented by supervised predictions.”
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“The development of single-cell multi-omics methods and the growth of single-cell datasets created a well-suited scenario for applying deep learning methods in single-cell analysis, which could further lead to advancements in the field of drug discovery, therapeutic targets, and digital health [2,131].”
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“Corrected count matrices for each sample were processed using Scanpy tools following recommended best practices for retaining high-quality cells63.”
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“there is no commonly accepted framework for quantifying the statistical validity of single-cell CRISPR screen association testing methods”
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“Hence, a common task in single-cell analysis is to eliminate batch effects without removing meaningful biological differences, allowing for data integration [13, 14, 15].”
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§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Conclusions and future perspectives
“All recommendations are based on independent benchmarks, which inevitably lag behind the latest method developments.”
§ Best practices for single-cell analysis across modalities > Transcriptome > From raw count matrices to high-quality cellular data
“Even in the absence of a systematic benchmark, one should consider removing ambient RNA as an initial analysis step in quality control to improve downstream analyses for many tissues21–23.”
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Molecularly generated light and its biomedical applications
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“Comprehensive guides on best practices for the computational processing of single-cell data in general are available 142,143 .”
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Opportunities and Challenges in Advancing Plant Research with Single-cell Omics
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InfluentialSelf-citationModal-nexus auto-encoder for multi-modality cellular data integration and imputation
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Current annotation strategies for T cell phenotyping of single-cell RNA-seq data
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MethodInfluentialEngineering mtDNA Deletions by Reconstituting End-Joining in Human Mitochondria
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Functional analysis of cell plasticity using single-cell technologies
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Interpretable deep learning in single-cell omics
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heumos, L., Schaar, A. C., Lance, C., Litinetskaya, A., Drost, F., Zappia, L., Lücken, M. D., Strobl, D. C., Henao, J., Curion, F., Single-cell Best Practices Consortium, Aliee, H., Ansari, M., Badia-i-Mompel, P., Büttner, M., Dann, E., Dimitrov, D., Dony, L., Frishberg, A., He, D., Hediyeh-zadeh, S., Hetzel, L., Ibarra, I. L., Jones, M. G., Lotfollahi, M., Martens, L. D., Müller, C. L., Nitzan, M., Ostner, J., Palla, G., Patro, R., Piran, Z., Ramírez-Suástegui, C., Saez-Rodriguez, J., Sarkar, H., Schubert, B., Sikkema, L., Srivastava, A., Tanevski, J., Virshup, I., Weiler, P., Schiller, H. B., & Theis, F. J.
- Affiliations
- Helmholtz Munich (DE)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- La Jolla Institute for Immunology (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- New York Genome Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Theis, Fabian J.
- ORCID
- Heumos, Lukas
- Schaar, Anna C.
- Lance, Christopher
- Litinetskaya, Anastasia
- Drost, Felix
- Zappia, Luke
- Lücken, Malte D.
- Strobl, Daniel C.
- Henao, Juan
- Curion, Fabiola
- Aliee, Hananeh
- Ansari, Meshal
- Badia-i-Mompel, Pau
- Büttner, Maren
- Dann, Emma
- Dimitrov, Daniel
- Dony, Leander
- Frishberg, Amit
- He, Dongze
- Hediyeh-zadeh, Soroor
- Hetzel, Leon
- Ibarra, Ignacio L.
- Jones, Matthew G.
- Lotfollahi, Mohammad
- Martens, Laura D.
- Müller, Christian L.
- Nitzan, Mor
- Ostner, Johannes
- Palla, Giovanni
- Patro, Rob
- Piran, Zoe
- Ramírez-Suástegui, Ciro
- Sarkar, Hirak
- Schubert, Benjamin
- Sikkema, Lisa
- Srivastava, Avi
- Tanevski, Jovan
- Virshup, Isaac
- Weiler, Philipp
- Schiller, Herbert B.
- Theis, Fabian J.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2023-03-31
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 550-572
- ISSN
- 1471-0056 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0064
- PMC
- PMC10066026
- OpenAlex
- W4362521490
- Cited by
- 1,051
- References
- 269
- Citations by year
- 2026: 295 · 2025: 367 · 2024: 296 · 2023: 90
- FWCI
- 28.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1763680, 1750472)
- Joachim Herz Stiftung
- Wellcome Trust (108413 /A/15/D)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (452881907, SFB-TRR 338/1, TRR355, TP Z02, SFB-TRR 338, 490846870)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01IS18053A)
- Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Unit (ZT-I-PF-5-01)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG009937)
- National Cancer Institute (K99CA267677)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Keywords
- single-cell multi-omics, multimodal data integration, single-cell transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, surface protein expression, adaptive immune receptor repertoire
- MeSH terms
- Gene Expression Profiling, Proteomics, Single-Cell Analysis
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