StemnesScoRe: an R package to estimate the stemness of glioma cancer cells at single-cell resolution.

Journal: Turkish journal of biology = Turk biyoloji dergisi
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Abstract

BACKGROUND/AIM: Glioblastoma is the most heterogeneous and the most difficult-to-treat type of brain tumor and one of the deadliest among all cancers. The high plasticity of glioma cancer stem cells and the resistance they develop against multiple modalities of therapy, along with their high heterogeneity, are the main challenges faced during treatment of glioblastoma. Therefore, a better understanding of the stemness characteristics of glioblastoma cells is needed. With the development of various single-cell technologies and increasing applications of machine learning, indices based on transcriptomic and/or epigenomic data have been developed to quantitatively measure cellular states and stemness. In this study, we aimed to develop a glioma-specific stemness score model using scATAC-seq data for the first time.

Authors

  • Necla Koçhan
    İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, İzmir, Turkiye.
  • Yavuz Oktay
    İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, İzmir, Turkiye.
  • Gökhan Karakülah
    İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, İzmir, Turkiye.

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