scE2EGAE: enhancing single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis through an end-to-end cell-graph-learnable graph autoencoder with differentiable edge sampling.

Journal: Biology direct
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) technology reveals biological processes and molecular-level genomic information among individual cells. Numerous computational methods, including methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs), have been developed to enhance scRNA-Seq data analysis. However, existing GNNs-based methods usually construct fixed graphs by applying the k-nearest neighbors algorithm, which may result in information loss.

Authors

  • Shuo Wang
    College of Tea & Food Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China.
  • Yuanning Liu
    Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
  • Hao Zhang
    College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China.
  • Zhen Liu
    School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, PR China; Analytical Service Unit, WuXi AppTec (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, Shanghai, 200131, PR China.