Enabling single-cell trajectory network enrichment.


Journal

Nature computational science
ISSN: 2662-8457
Titre abrégé: Nat Comput Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101775476

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Historique:
received: 31 05 2020
accepted: 15 01 2021
medline: 1 2 2021
pubmed: 1 2 2021
entrez: 13 1 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies allow the investigation of cellular differentiation processes with unprecedented resolution. Although powerful software packages for scRNA-seq data analysis exist, systems biology-based tools for trajectory analysis are rare and typically difficult to handle. This hampers biological exploration and prevents researchers from gaining deeper insights into the molecular control of developmental processes. Here, to address this, we have developed Scellnetor; a network-constraint time-series clustering algorithm. It allows extraction of temporal differential gene expression network patterns (modules) that explain the difference in regulation of two developmental trajectories. Using well-characterized experimental model systems, we demonstrate the capacity of Scellnetor as a hypothesis generator to identify putative mechanisms driving haematopoiesis or mechanistically interpretable subnetworks driving dysfunctional CD8 T-cell development in chronic infections. Altogether, Scellnetor allows for single-cell trajectory network enrichment, which effectively lifts scRNA-seq data analysis to a systems biology level.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38217228
doi: 10.1038/s43588-021-00025-y
pii: 10.1038/s43588-021-00025-y
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

153-163

Subventions

Organisme : Villum Fonden (Villum Foundation)
ID : 13154

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.

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Auteurs

Alexander G B Grønning (AGB)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. alexander.groenning@sund.ku.dk.
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. alexander.groenning@sund.ku.dk.

Mhaned Oubounyt (M)

Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Chair of Computational Systems Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Kristiyan Kanev (K)

Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.

Jesper Lund (J)

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Tim Kacprowski (T)

Division Data Science in Biomedicine, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Brunswick, Germany.

Dietmar Zehn (D)

Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.

Richard Röttger (R)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Jan Baumbach (J)

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. jan.baumbach@uni-hamburg.de.
Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. jan.baumbach@uni-hamburg.de.
Chair of Computational Systems Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. jan.baumbach@uni-hamburg.de.

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