Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Oct 3, 2023
MOTIVATION: Cell-cell interactions (CCIs) play critical roles in many biological processes such as cellular differentiation, tissue homeostasis, and immune response. With the rapid development of high throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Sep 2, 2023
MOTIVATION: Learning low-dimensional representations of single-cell transcriptomics has become instrumental to its downstream analysis. The state of the art is currently represented by neural network models, such as variational autoencoders, which us...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Aug 1, 2023
MOTIVATION: Analyzing large-scale single-cell transcriptomic datasets generated using different technologies is challenging due to the presence of batch-specific systematic variations known as batch effects. Since biological and technological differe...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Jun 1, 2023
MOTIVATION: Recent advances in multimodal single-cell omics technologies enable multiple modalities of molecular attributes, such as gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and protein abundance, to be profiled simultaneously at a global level in i...
Briefings in bioinformatics
May 19, 2023
Single-cell RNA-seq analysis has become a powerful tool to analyse the transcriptomes of individual cells. In turn, it has fostered the possibility of screening thousands of single cells in parallel. Thus, contrary to the traditional bulk measurement...
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Feb 3, 2023
MOTIVATION: In single-cell transcriptomics applications, effective identification of cell types in multicellular organisms and in-depth study of the relationships between genes has become one of the main goals of bioinformatics research. However, dat...
Nucleic acids research
Jan 6, 2023
Aging is a complex process that accompanied by molecular and cellular alterations. The identification of tissue-/cell type-specific biomarkers of aging and elucidation of the detailed biological mechanisms of aging-related genes at the single-cell le...
Briefings in bioinformatics
Nov 19, 2022
Time-course single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data have been widely used to explore dynamic changes in gene expression of transcription factors (TFs) and their target genes. This information is useful to reconstruct cell-type-specific gene regul...
Nucleic acids research
Jun 10, 2022
Deciphering the cellular composition in genome-wide spatially resolved transcriptomic data is a critical task to clarify the spatial context of cells in a tissue. In this study, we developed a method, CellDART, which estimates the spatial distributio...
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology
May 1, 2022
Deep learning has tremendous potential in single-cell data analyses, but numerous challenges and possible new developments remain to be explored. In this commentary, we consider the progress, limitations, best practices and outlook of adapting deep l...