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Hierarchicell: estimating power for tests of differential expression with single-cell data
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Power analyses are considered important factors in designing high-quality experiments. However, such analyses remain a challenge in single-cell RNA-seq studies due to the presence of hierarchical structure within the data (Zimmerman et al., 2021). As cells sampled from the same individual share genetic and environmental backgrounds, these cells are more correlated than cells sampled from different individuals. Currently, most power analyses and hypothesis tests (e.g., differential expression) in scRNA-seq data treat cells as if they were independent, thus ignoring the intra-sample correlation, which could lead to incorrect inferences. Hierarchicell (Zimmerman, K.D. and Langefeld, C.D., 2021) is an R package proposed to estimate power for testing hypotheses of differential expression in scRNA-seq data while considering the hierarchical correlation structure that exists in the data. The method offers four important categories of functions: data loading and cleaning, empirical estimation of distributions, simulating expression data, and computing type 1 error or power. In this notebook, we will illustrate an example workflow of Hierarchicell. The notebook is inspired by Hierarchicell's vignette and modified to demonstrate how the tool works on BioTuring's platform.
iBRIDGE: A Data Integration Method to Identify Inflamed Tumors from Single-Cell RNAseq Data and Differentiate Cell Type-Specific Markers of Immune-Cell Infiltration
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The development of immune checkpoint-based immunotherapies has been a major advancement in the treatment of cancer, with a subset of patients exhibiting durable clinical responses. A predictive biomarker for immunotherapy response is the pre-existing T-cell infiltration in the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME). Bulk transcriptomics-based approaches can quantify the degree of T-cell infiltration using deconvolution methods and identify additional markers of inflamed/cold cancers at the bulk level. However, bulk techniques are unable to identify biomarkers of individual cell types. Although single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) assays are now being used to profile the TIME, to our knowledge there is no method of identifying patients with a T-cell inflamed TIME from scRNAseq data. Here, we describe a method, iBRIDGE, which integrates reference bulk RNAseq data with the malignant subset of scRNAseq datasets to identify patients with a T-cell inflamed TIME. Utilizing two datasets with matched bulk data, we show iBRIDGE results correlated highly with bulk assessments (0.85 and 0.9 correlation coefficients). Using iBRIDGE, we identified markers of inflamed phenotypes in malignant cells, myeloid cells, and fibroblasts, establishing type I and type II interferon pathways as dominant signals, especially in malignant and myeloid cells, and finding the TGFβ-driven mesenchymal phenotype not only in fibroblasts but also in malignant cells. Besides relative classification, per-patient average iBRIDGE scores and independent RNAScope quantifications were utilized for threshold-based absolute classification. Moreover, iBRIDGE can be applied to in vitro grown cancer cell lines and can identify the cell lines that are adapted from inflamed/cold patient tumors.
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iBRIDGE
scVI-tools: single-cell variational inference tools
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scVI-tools (single-cell variational inference tools) is a package for end-to-end analysis of single-cell omics data primarily developed and maintained by the Yosef Lab at UC Berkeley. scvi-tools has two components - Interface for easy use of a range of probabilistic models for single-cell omics (e.g., scVI, scANVI, totalVI). - Tools to build new probabilistic models, which are powered by PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, and Pyro.
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scVI
Harmony: fast, sensitive, and accurate integration of single cell data
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Single-cell RNA-seq datasets in diverse biological and clinical conditions provide great opportunities for the full transcriptional characterization of cell types. However, the integration of these datasets is challeging as they remain biological and techinical differences. **Harmony** is an algorithm allowing fast, sensitive and accurate single-cell data integration.
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harmonpy

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Evaluating Performance on Single-Cell Datasets using BioTuring Alpha, Scanpy and Seurat

BioTuring

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized the study of gene expression at the individual cell level, enabling researchers to uncover heterogeneity and dynamics within complex cellular populations. To analyze and interpret scRNA-seq da(More)
Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat

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Understanding global communications among cells requires accurate representation of cell-cell signaling links and effective systems-level analyses of those links. We construct a database of interactions among ligands, receptors and their cofactor(More)
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CellChat
BioTuring Data Converter: Seurat <=> Scanpy for single-cell data transcriptomic and spatial transcriptomics

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This notebook illustrates how to convert data from a Seurat object into a Scanpy annotation data and a Scanpy annotation data into a Seurat object using the BioStudio data transformation library (currently under development). It facilitates continued(More)
COMMOT: Screening cell-cell communication in spatial transcriptomics via collective optimal transport

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In this notebook, we present COMMOT (COMMunication analysis by Optimal Transport) to infer cell-cell communication (CCC) in spatial transcriptomic, a package that infers CCC by simultaneously considering numerous ligand–receptor pairs for either sp(More)
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COMMOT
scGPT: Towards Building a Foundational Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics Using Generative AI

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Generative pre-trained models have demonstrated exceptional success in various fields, including natural language processing and computer vision. In line with this progress, scGPT has been developed as a foundational model tailored specifically for t(More)
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scgpt
Seurat
Bioalpha-Biocolab: Enabling Large-Scale Data Uploads for BBrowserX single-cell analysis platform

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Single-cell data analysis is revolutionizing biological research, but often these dataset sizes can be massive and pose challenges for submission process. Bioalpha-Biocolab addresses this issue by implementing advanced algorithms and leveraging effic(More)
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AlphaSC
pySCENIC: Single-Cell rEgulatory Network Inference and Clustering

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SCENIC Suite is a set of tools to study and decipher gene regulation. Its core is based on SCENIC (Single-Cell Regulatory Network Inference and Clustering) which enables you to infer transcription factors, gene regulatory networks and cell types from(More)
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pySCENIC
Bioturing Massive-scale Analysis Solution for CellChat: Running analysis for massive-scale data from Seurat dataset

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This tool provides a user-friendly and automated way to analyze large-scale single-cell RNA-seq datasets stored in RDS (Seurat) format. It allows users to run various analysis tools on their data in one command, streamlining the analysis workflow and(More)
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CellChat
SCEVAN: Single CEll Variational ANeuploidy analysis

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In the realm of cancer research, grasping the intricacies of intratumor heterogeneity and its interplay with the immune system is paramount for deciphering treatment resistance and tumor progression. While single-cell RNA sequencing unveils diverse t(More)
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scevan
Monorail-pipeline and Recount3

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Monorail can be used to process local and/or private data, allowing results to be directly compared to any study in recount3. Taken together, Monorail-pipeline tools help biologists maximize the utility of publicly available RNA-seq data, especially (More)
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recount3
NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

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Computational methods that model how the gene expression of a cell is influenced by interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet, a method that predicts ligand–target links between interacting cells by combining their expression data with(More)
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nichenetr
Multimodal single-cell chromatin analysis with Signac

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The recent development of experimental methods for measuring chromatin state at single-cell resolution has created a need for computational tools capable of analyzing these datasets. Here we developed Signac, a framework for the analysis of single-ce(More)
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signac
Spatially informed cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics - CARD

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Many spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies do not have single-cell resolution but measure the average gene expression for each spot from a mixture of cells of potentially heterogeneous cell types. Here, we introduce a deconvolution metho(More)
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card
SpaCET: Cell type deconvolution and interaction analysis

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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technology has allowed to capture of topographical gene expression profiling of tumor tissues, but single-cell resolution is potentially lost. Identifying cell identities in ST datasets from tumors or other samples remain(More)
SoupX: removing ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data

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Droplet-based single-cell RNA sequence analyses assume that all acquired RNAs are endogenous to cells. However, there is a certain amount of cell-free mRNAs floating in the input solution (referred to as 'the soup'), created from cells in the input s(More)
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SoupX
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CellChat
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COMMOT
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scgpt
Seurat
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AlphaSC
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pySCENIC
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CellChat
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scevan
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recount3
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nichenetr
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signac
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card
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SoupX