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Deep generative modeling for single-cell transcriptomics
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Single-cell transcriptome measurements can reveal unexplored biological diversity, but they suffer from technical noise and bias that must be modeled to account for the resulting uncertainty in downstream analyses. Here we introduce single-cell variational inference (scVI), a ready-to-use scalable framework for the probabilistic representation and analysis of gene expression in single cells ( https://github.com/YosefLab/scVI ). scVI uses stochastic optimization and deep neural networks to aggregate information across similar cells and genes and to approximate the distributions that underlie observed expression values, while accounting for batch effects and limited sensitivity. We used scVI for a range of fundamental analysis tasks including batch correction, visualization, clustering, and differential expression, and achieved high accuracy for each task.
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“On the other hand, the transcriptional state of individual cells may vary in ways that are poorly captured in pseudo-bulk (for example, due to the presence of multiple cell types)38.”
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“Both scGPT and Geneformer produce cell embeddings intended to project potentially noisy gene expression measurements to a more biologically relevant latent space [18–21], and then these cell embeddings are fine-tuned for cell type classification.”
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“For instance, in scRNA-seq analysis, zero-inflated autoencoders were introduced to handle data sparsity by employing a specialized loss function that aligns with the binomial distribution of single-cell data [33].”
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“Multi-omics integration represents another natural application area, where specialized agents analyze transcriptomic, epigenomic, proteomic, and spatial datasets, reconciling heterogeneous signals through shared representation spaces, a task particularly suited to foundation models capable of cross-modal alignment [12, 43, 44].”
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“To map SEA-AD data to cell types consistently across all 84 donors, we first defined robust transcriptional types, named supertypes, in the BICCN reference; 125 supertypes represented cell types that could be reliably reidentified in reference datasets (mean F1 score = 0.91) using hierarchical probabilistic Bayesian mapping47,48(Extended Data Fig. 5a,b).”
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“Importantly, statistical and deep-learning methods designed for single-cell RNA-seq data often utilize a negative binomial (or zero-inflated negative binomial) error model [10, 15].”
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“Latent representations, as learned by frameworks such as single-cell variational inference41, can be used for batch correction, clustering, visualization and DGE analysis.”
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“Recently, deep learning has been used to produce an embedded workflow that can fit the data, denoise it and perform downstream analysis such as clustering and differential expression within the framework of the model (scVI: Lopez et al, 2018).”
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“Current proposed single-cell foundation models produce cell embeddings. These embeddings are intended to project potentially noisy gene expression measurements to a more biologically relevant latent space and to thus improve our ability to resolve cell types, consistent with previous machine learning methods in this field (including scVI) [30, 31, 24, 32].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lopez, R., Regier, J., Cole, M. B., Jordan, M. I., & Yosef, N.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yosef, Nir
- Venue
- Nature Methods
- Published
- 2018-11-30
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1053-1058
- ISSN
- 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-7105
- PMC
- PMC6289068
- OpenAlex
- W2901677030
- Cited by
- 2,530
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 588 · 2025: 489 · 2024: 409 · 2023: 311 · 2022: 248 · 2021: 239 · 2020: 155 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 11
- FWCI
- 43.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Methods (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R38AI140299, U19AI090023)
- 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 expression and cancer classification
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Keywords
- single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell RNA sequencing, deep generative models, batch effect correction, differential gene expression, cell clustering, uncertainty quantification
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Animals, Brain, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Humans, Leukocytes, Mononuclear, Models, Biological, Genetic Variation, Cluster Analysis, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Computational Biology, Mice, Single-Cell Analysis, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Transcriptome
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