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Cell type prioritization in single-cell data
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We present Augur, a method to prioritize the cell types most responsive to biological perturbations in single-cell data. Augur employs a machine-learning framework to quantify the separability of perturbed and unperturbed cells within a high-dimensional space. We validate our method on single-cell RNA sequencing, chromatin accessibility and imaging transcriptomics datasets, and show that Augur outperforms existing methods based on differential gene expression. Augur identified the neural circuits restoring locomotion in mice following spinal cord neurostimulation.
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“Five of these six comparisons involved acute perturbations on the timescale of transcription (minutes to hours), raising a risk that the total transcriptional output of each cell may not yet fully reflect the impact of the perturbation at the time of snRNA-seq12. Consequently, for these five comparisons, we applied Augur to a matrix of RNA velocity75, as previously described12,13,75.”
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- Authors
- Skinnider, M. A., Squair, J. W., Kathe, C., Anderson, M. A., Gautier, M., Matson, K. J. E., Milano, M., Hutson, T. H., Barraud, Q., Phillips, A. A., Foster, L. J., La Manno, G., Levine, A. J., & Courtine, G.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (US)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Skinnider, Michael A.
- Squair, Jordan W.
- Courtine, Grégoire
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Biotechnology
- Published
- 2020-07-20
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 30-34
- ISSN
- 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0156
- 1546-1696
- PMC
- PMC7610525
- OpenAlex
- W3043086101
- Cited by
- 274
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 64 · 2025: 83 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 6.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (acceptedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Genome Canada (214PRO)
- Fondation Brain Canada
- Compute Canada
- Western Canada Research Grid
- Genome British Columbia (214PRO, project 214PRO)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (185214, 310030)
- Killam Trusts
- Alberta Innovates
- National Institutes of Health
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
- Keywords
- single-cell data, Augur, differential gene expression, chromatin accessibility, imaging transcriptomics, locomotor recovery, neural circuits
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Animals, Chromatin, Nerve Net, Walking, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, Databases, Genetic, Mice, Rats, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome
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